[Tutor] RE: __and__

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 6:32 PM +0100 10/18/99, Arne Mueller wrote:

>__and__ (in operator) (a, b)
>    Return the bitwise and of a and b.
>__add__ (in operator) (a, b)
>    Return a + b, for a and b numbers.
>
>So I thought __and__ it'd work the same way as __add__ ... :-(

It does.  Perhaps you don't understand what "bitwise and" means?  And 
that the operator for "bitwise and" is "&" rather than "and"?

Cheers,
-- Joe

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