10. Booleans, Comparison Operators, and Logical Operators

Boolean Comparison and Logical Operators

Booleans, Comparison Operators, and Logical Operators

The bool data type holds one of the values True or False, which are often encoded as 1 or 0, respectively.

There are 6 comparison operators that are common to see in order to obtain a bool value:

Comparison Operators

Symbol Use Case Bool Operation
5 < 3 False Less Than
5 > 3 True Greater Than
3 <= 3 True Less Than or Equal To
3 >= 5 False Greater Than or Equal To
3 == 5 False Equal To
3 != 5 True Not Equal To

And there are three logical operators you need to be familiar with:

Logical Use Bool Operation
5 < 3 and 5 == 5 False and - Evaluates if all provided statements are True
5 < 3 or 5 == 5 True or - Evaluates if at least one of many statements is True
not 5 < 3 True not - Flips the Bool Value

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