Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic
Elizabeth Weiss
cake240 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 00:20:35 EDT 2016
On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 11:59:37 PM UTC-4, Ben Finney wrote:
> Elizabeth Weiss > writes:
>
> > Hi There,
>
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> > I am a little confused as to how this is False:
> > False==(False or True)
> >
> > I would think it is True because False==False is true.
>
> What does ‘(False or True)’ evaluate to, when you try it in the REPL?
>
> > I think the parenthesis are confusing me.
> > (False==False) or True
> >
> > This is True. Is it because False==False? And True==False is not True
> > but that does not change that this is True.
>
> Heh. You express the confusion quite well :-)
>
> Try the component expressions in the REPL (the interactive interpreter
> session) and see if that helps::
>
> >>> False or True
> …
> >>> (False or True)
> …
> >>> True == False
> …
> >>> (True == False)
> …
> >>> False == False
> …
> >>> (False == False)
> …
>
> Then, once you think you understand what those expressions evaluate to,
> look again at how those results would work in a more complex
> expression::
>
> >>> False == (False or True)
> …
> >>> (False == False) or True
> …
>
> > Thank you for your help!
>
> I hope that helps.
>
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> Ben Finney
Thank you, Ben!
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