bool behavior in Python 3000?

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Wed Jul 11 16:30:03 EDT 2007


Alan Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:
>  Miles wrote:
> > What boolean operation does '-' represent?
> 
>  Complementation.
>  And as usual, a-b is to be interpreted as a+(-b).
>  In which case the desired behavior is
>   False-True = False+(-True)=False+False = False

If you want to do algebra with bools in python then use the logical
operators (and or not) and not the arithmetical operators.

Eg

  >>> False or not True
  False

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