Elizabeth Weiss <cake...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi There,
Welcome! Your questions are fine here, but you may like to know that we also have a beginner-specific forum for collaborative tutoring <URL:https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>. > I am a little confused as to how this is False: > False==(False or True) > > I would think it is True because False==False is true. What does ‘(False or True)’ evaluate to, when you try it in the REPL? > I think the parenthesis are confusing me. > (False==False) or True > > This is True. Is it because False==False? And True==False is not True > but that does not change that this is True. Heh. You express the confusion quite well :-) Try the component expressions in the REPL (the interactive interpreter session) and see if that helps:: >>> False or True … >>> (False or True) … >>> True == False … >>> (True == False) … >>> False == False … >>> (False == False) … Then, once you think you understand what those expressions evaluate to, look again at how those results would work in a more complex expression:: >>> False == (False or True) … >>> (False == False) or True … > Thank you for your help! I hope that helps. -- \ “[W]e are still the first generation of users, and for all that | `\ we may have invented the net, we still don't really get it.” | _o__) —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
