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Re: Conditionals And Control Flows

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On May 4, 2016 10:45 AM, "Cai Gengyang" <gengyangcai@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.

HTH.

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Conditionals And Control Flows Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 07:41 -0700
  Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Bob Gailer <bgailer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 10:54 -0400
  Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 14:56 +0000
  Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 00:58 +1000
  Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-04 18:10 +0300
    Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-05-04 16:21 +0100
    Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 08:23 -0700
      Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-04 19:41 +0300
  Re: Conditionals And Control Flows Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-04 11:54 -0700

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