Notes - Monday 12/28/20
12/28/20 Monday
Let's keep going with the Udemy course! We took a smol holiday break. Starting with boolean operators.
Boolean Comparison operators
== Equality: Checks to see if objects are equal to each other. Type of data matters so if you compare "2" = 2
it won't yield True since you're comparing a string to an integer. If you compare 'Bye' = 'bye'
it won't yield true since case matters.
!= Inequality: Checks to see if objects are UNequal to each other. So let's say you want to see if 4 is not equal to 5. Your syntax would be 4 != 5
and Python would yield True.
>
Greater Than: Checks to see if the objects are greater than each other.
< Less Than: Checks to see if the objects are less than each other.
>=
Greater Than or Equal to: as described. Like the greater than and equality check together.
<= Less Than or Equal to: as described like the less than and equality check together.
Chaining Boolean/Comparison Operators
So we discussed comparison operators above:
- Equality ==
- Inequality !=
- Greater Than >
- Less Than <
- Greater Than or Equal to >=
- Less Than or Equal to <=
Now we're going to add in:
- AND
- OR
- NOT
Let's say that we want to compare 1, 2, and 3.
1 < 2 < 3
will work and output True.1 < 2 > 3
will output False even though1 < 2
is true.
AND Operand
In example #2, we could use the AND
operator which would link the two comparisons together. So in other words, AND
wants both the statements on either side to be True. The syntax would be:
1 < 2 AND 2 > 3
So this is checking if 1 < 2
is true AND THEN if 2 > 3```` is true. If both are true then we'll get an output of true. But since
2 > 3``` is false, the result will output as False.
OR Operand
This logic links 2 statements together and checks to see if either pass the logic presented. In other words, OR
wants one of the statements on either side to be True. So if we use example #2 again, the OR
operator can be used. And the syntax would look like:
1 < 2 OR 2 > 3
So this is checking if either of the comparison statements are true. Either statement on the left or right can yield a true output and the OR
operator will output as True.
NOT Operand
This logic looks for the reverse of what's inside the statement. Another way to say this is that the NOT
operand is looking for the opposite of the boolean or syntax or statement in the line of code. So let's say our example is:
100 == 1
So if we ran this as is, we would expect a False output as 100 does not equal 1. But if we used the NOT
operand then we would expect a True output. This is because we're asking Python if the example statement is NOT equal. So the syntax would look like:
not 100 == 1
Future Usage
These AND
, OR
, and NOT
operands can be used in these simpler boolean/comparison operators. It could also be used in If statements.
The syntaxes might change depending on the library used but these operands could be wrapped in a parantheses or not. For example the above NOT
operand example could look like either one of these:
not (100 == 1)
not 100 == 1
For now either of these are acceptable but as stated, the syntax may change depending on the libraries used which will be covered later.
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