"Stef Mientki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | John Machin wrote: | So now I'm left with just one question: | for bitwise operations I should use &, |, ^ | for boolean operations I should use and, or, xor | but after doing some test I find strange effects: | >>> A = 4 | >>> B = 5 | >>> A and B | 5
>>> B and A 4 | >>> A & B | 4 | >>> A or B | 4 >>> B or A 5 | >>> A | B | 5 | | So if I use the bitwise operation on integers, | "and" changes into (bitwise) "or" and vise versa. No, you hypnotised yourself by generalizing from insufficient data. Repeat experiment with, for instance, 3 and 4 instead of 4 and 5. Then 3&4 = 0, 3|4 = 7. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
