Python's Logical Operator AND
Solution 1:
Python Boolean operators return the last value evaluated, not True/False. The docs have a good explanation of this:
The expression
x and y
first evaluatesx
; ifx
isfalse
, its value is returned; otherwise,y
is evaluated and the resulting value is returned.
Solution 2:
As a bit of a side note: (i don't have enough rep for a comment) The AND operator is not needed for printing multiple variables. You can simply separate variable names with commas such as print five, two
instead of print five AND two
. You can also use escapes to add variables to a print line such as print "the var five is equal to: %s" %five
. More on that here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#simulating-scanf
Like others have said AND is a logical operator and used to string together multiple conditions, such as
if (five == 5) AND (two == 2):
print five, two
Solution 3:
Boolean And operators will return the first value 5
if the expression evaluated is false
, and the second value 2
if the expression evaluated is true
. Because 5
and 2
are both real, non-false, and non-null values, the expression is evaluated to true.
If you wanted to print both variables you could concatenate them to a String and print that.
five = 5
two = 2
print five + " and " + two
Or to print their sum you could use
print five + two
This document explains how to use the logical Boolean operators.