On May 4, 2016 10:45 AM, "Cai Gengyang" <gengyang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to understand the boolean operator "and" in Python. It is supposed to return "True" when the expression on both sides of "and" are true > > For instance, > > 1 < 3 and 10 < 20 is True --- (because both statements are true) > 1 < 5 and 5 > 12 is False --- (because both statements are false) > > bool_one = False and False --- This should give False because none of the statements are False > bool_two = True and False --- This should give False because only 1 statement is True > bool_three = False and True --- This should give False because only 1 statement is True > bool_five = True and True --- This should give True because only 1 statement is True > > Am I correct ? Yes. Caveat : python Boolean operators return the value of the last argument necessary to determine the outcome. Example : 2 or 3 results in 2 2 and 3 results in 3. 0 and 3 results in 0.
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