xor operator?

[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]

I have indeed never met a language which had a boolean XOR (but some
have a binary XOR).

I did meet some cases where an action would be needed based upon
the exclusivity of two states, but I think it is better for the understanding
and maintenance of code when you say :

        if (not A and B) or (A and not B)

Jurgen




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Def P <def-p at usa.net> writes:

> I notice that there doesn't seem to be a boolean xor operator in
> Python. Does someone know the reasons behind this?

I suspect largely because C doesn't have one (do any reasonably
mainstream languages have one?  I can't think of any).  There was a
thread about this fairly recently that shouldn't be too hard to dig
up...

Cheers,
M.

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