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Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: and becomes or and or becomes and
Date 2011-05-22 18:14 -0400
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On 5/22/2011 5:57 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Stef Mientki wrote:
>
>> must of us will not use single bits these days,
>> but at first sight, this looks funny :
>>
>>>>> a=2
>>>>> b=6
>>>>> a and b
>> 6
>>>>> a&  b
>> 2
>>>>> a or b
>> 2
>>>>> a | b
>> 6
>
> Change the order of the operands and see what happens.

or change a,b to 1,2


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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and becomes or and or becomes and Stef Mientki <stef.mientki@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 21:23 +0200
  Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-22 23:57 +0200
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-22 18:14 -0400
  Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-05-22 15:39 -0700
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 09:28 +1000
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-23 00:30 +0000
      Re: and becomes or and or becomes and rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 08:30 -0700
        Re: and becomes or and or becomes and bch <bch.itbgcthate@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 05:27 -0700
          Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 22:50 +1000
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-28 14:31 +0100
      Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 00:04 +1000

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