(no) fast boolean evaluation ? missing NOT

[Terry Reedy]

"Stef Mientki" <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote in message 
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| John Machin wrote:
| So now I'm left with just one question:
| for bitwise operations I should use &, |, ^
| for boolean operations I should use and, or, xor
| but after doing some test I find strange effects:
| >>> A = 4
| >>> B = 5
| >>> A and B
| 5

>>> B and A
4

| >>> A & B
| 4
| >>> A or B
| 4

>>> B or A
5

| >>> A | B
| 5
|
| So if I use the bitwise operation on integers,
|   "and" changes into (bitwise) "or" and vise versa.

No, you hypnotised yourself by generalizing from insufficient data.
Repeat experiment with, for instance, 3 and 4 instead of 4 and 5.  Then 3&4 
= 0, 3|4 = 7.

tjr