The first code example prints "True" but the second code example prints "False".
They're both the same thing or not?
This prints "True":
print("f" == ("f" or "t"))
This prints "False"
print(False == (False or True))
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1try to print inner expressions only and see what it says – georg May 03 '21 at 08:34
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2`False or True` returns `True`. `"f" or "t"` returns `"f"`, since `bool("f")` is `True`. – Maroun May 03 '21 at 08:34
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`"f"` and `"t"` as strings. `True` and `False` are special boolean values with special values of truthiness. Why would the behave the same in a boolean expression as two strings? – Iguananaut May 03 '21 at 08:36
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1Please make the title more informative. – George Sotiropoulos May 03 '21 at 08:40
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Here's a brief explanation of how the OR operator works in Python:
With the Boolean OR operator, you can connect two Boolean expressions into one compound expression. At least one subexpressions must be true for the compound expression to be considered true, and it doesn’t matter which. If both subexpressions are false, then the expression is false.
If you want to understand in a more pratical way please try this code:
print(False or True)
Output
True
For this reason your final statement would be:
print(False == True)
Output
False
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