If you’re new[ish] to scripting, here’s a Python snippet that illustrates short-circuit evaluation of boolean expressions.

In this snippet, short-circuit evaluation is used to avoid errors. For example, if there is no such ICE attribute (nb is not None) then there is no attempt to try and use the ICE attribute methods like IsDefined.

The expression in the print statement also relies on operator precedence (not has higher precedence than and, so everything works as expected).

# Assume a polymesh is selected...
o = Application.Selection(0)

# Check the intrinsic ICE attribute
nb =  o.ActivePrimitive.ICEAttributes("NbPoints")
print nb is not None and nb.IsDefined and nb.DataArray[0] <= 0

The above snippet also relies on operator precedence (not has higher precedence than and, so everything works as expected).

Since or has higher precedence than and, you could write something like this:

nb.IsDefined and nb.DataArray[0] <= 0 or o.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.Polygons.Count <= 0

But I’d probably put in the parentheses just to be clear:

(nb.IsDefined and nb.DataArray[0] <= 0) or o.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.Polygons.Count <= 0