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Logical Operators

You're probably familiar with the logical operators and and or.

Logical operators deal with boolean values, True and False.

The logical and operator requires that both inputs are True to return True. The logical or operator only requires that at least one input is True to return True.

For example:

True and True == True
True and False == False
False and False == False

True or True == True
True or False == True
False or False == False

Python Syntax

print(True and True)
# prints True

print(True or False)
# prints True

Nesting With Parentheses

We can nest logical expressions using parentheses.

print((True or False) and False)

First, we evaluate the expression in the parentheses, (True or False). It evaluates to True:

print(True and False)

True and False evaluates to False:

print(False)

So, print((True or False) and False) prints "False" to the console.