On Oct 20, 8:41 pm, Sumitava Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am a novice programmer in Python. > Please could you explain me the results (regarding logical operators). > > I get this: > > >>> print bool('God' and 'Devil') > > True > > [This is ok because (any) string is True, so; (True and True) gives > True] > > >>> print('God' and 'Devil') > > Devil > > [This is what I don't get ] > and for that matter,I also checked out this: > > >>> 01 and 10 > > 10 > > What is python doing when we type in ('God' and 'Devil') or key in (01 > and 10) ?
This is an interesting property of python's logical operators. They don't have to return a boolean object. (It's documented here: http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#boolean-operations) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list