xor operator

[Alan Gauld]

On 14/11/2023 00:33, Mats Wichmann via Python-list wrote:
> Hardware and software people may have somewhat different views of xor

I've come at it from both sides. I started life as a telecomms
technician and we learned about xor in the context of switching
and relays and xor was a wiring configuration for scenarios where
you wanted any single change of switch state to toggle the
entire system (think a stairwell with switches on every
landing).

Later, I got into software engineering and we studied Boolean
algebra and xor was an odd number of Truth values, used in
parity tests (and in encryption).

But from both perspectives xor is pretty clearly defined
in how it operates and not, I suspect, what the OP really
wants in this case.

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