For determining if something is True or False, we can use the next operators:
- Comparison: ==, !=, <, =<, >, =>, <>
- Logical: and, or, not, not and, not or, xor (or exclusive, represented by a caret character [^])
- Membership: in, not in
- Identity: is, is not
The truth tables is a way to view the result of the these operations. Scheme with the basic logical operators:
AND: only True if both operands is one 0 and 0 False 0 and 1 False 0 and 0 False 1 and 1 True OR: True when any operand is one 0 and 0 False 0 and 1 True 1 and 0 True 1 and 1 True NOT: it inverts the value of operand not 0 True not 1 False XOR: True when only one of the operand is true 0 ^ 0 False 0 ^ 1 True 1 ^ 0 True 1 ^ 1 False
We must to know the logical operators are short-circuiting, what means if from the first operand it is possible to deduce the result, Python won’t evaluate the second operand; thereby Python saves time. For example, if in AND the first operand is False, it is not necessary to evoaluate the second one, because the result will be False.
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