Note: The attached image is a screenshot of page 31 of Dr. Charles Severance’s book, Python for Everybody: Exploring Data Using Python 3 (2024-01-01 Revision).

I thought = was a mathematical operator, not a logical operator; why does Python use

>= instead of >==, or <= instead of <==, or != instead of !==?

Thanks in advance for any clarification. I would have posted this in the help forums of FreeCodeCamp, but I wasn’t sure if this question was too…unspecified(?) for that domain.

Cheers!

 

Edit: I think I get it now! Thanks so much to everyone for helping, and @FizzyOrange@programming.dev and @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone in particular! ^_^

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Well == is a question or a query rather than a declaration of the state of things because it isn’t necessarily true.

    You can write

    a = (3 == 4)

    which is perfectly valid code; it will just set a to be false, because the answer to the question “does 3 equal 4?” is no.

    I think you’ve got it anyway.