From 609abd33284284a487f1ac3bd0a6898ed6a77267 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niels Bom Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 05:29:58 +0100 Subject: [python3/en] show that True and False are ints (#3412) * [python3/en] show that True and False are ints * [python3/en] rework some boolean stuff I removed the example `-5 != False != True #=> True` because we didn't cover chaining yet. --- python3.html.markdown | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'python3.html.markdown') diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown index c7fbf342..b3f89372 100644 --- a/python3.html.markdown +++ b/python3.html.markdown @@ -72,15 +72,24 @@ not False # => True True and False # => False False or True # => True -# Note using Bool operators with ints -# False is 0 and True is 1 +# True and False are actually 1 and 0 but with different keywords +True + True # => 2 +True * 8 # => 8 +False - 5 # => -5 + +# Comparison operators look at the numerical value of True and False +0 == False # => True +1 == True # => True +2 == True # => False +-5 != False # => True + +# Using boolean logical operators on ints casts them to booleans for evaluation, but their non-cast value is returned # Don't mix up with bool(ints) and bitwise and/or (&,|) +bool(0) # => False +bool(4) # => True +bool(-6) # => True 0 and 2 # => 0 -5 or 0 # => -5 -0 == False # => True -2 == True # => False -1 == True # => True --5 != False != True #=> True # Equality is == 1 == 1 # => True -- cgit v1.2.3