Not the original author, but "or" at the start then a list may be better called "any". That (to me) would read more clearly. Particularly if you were passing in the contents, '"or": var' would make me think "var or what?" But '"any": var' seems more obvious.
Yeah, but he’s completely skipping over the fact that you’re going to lose some of the readability of short SQL statements switching to an ORM with methods, types/classes, functions, etc., but you can gain in maintainability of code.
Has a clear link to the python "any" as well