Hi, everyone can anybody elaborate me the usage of ‘not’ operator in boolean expressions. I mean, can we use two ‘not’ operators at a time. what is best about it. I’m waiting here
Using not is quite straightforward. It just inverts the boolean value of the expression to the right so that not True evaluates to False and not False evaluates to True. You can use more than one not operator on a single line though there’d be no benefit of chaining them not not True for example is pointless. Combining them with other comparisons is common, like the following form: if a > 3 and b is not None to create more complex logic statements.
If you’re curious about the order of evaluation then the docs are always a good shout- https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence
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ok thank you, plz look here and kindly points out, why it’s not working
if not credits >= 120 and gpa >= 2.0:
return “You do not meet either requirement to graduate!”
I’m finding difficulty here
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ok thannx. I’m gonna try it.
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NOT works on any value, not just booleans. The truth value coerces a boolean which NOT then toggles.
not 1 => False
not 0 => True
Using a double not is the same as bool()
not not 1 => True
bool(1) => True
We can also use it in a toggle method…
a = 0
for _ in range(10):
print (a)
a = int(not(a))
We’ve seen above how the is keyword can be used in combination, and it is common to see, not in within a membership test.
x not in range(n)
As mentioned by @tgrtim, we can build some pretty sophisticated expressions that incorporate the not operator.
>>> x = []
>>> len(x) is not 0
False
>>>
Not like we would ever see that in code, but it does as promised.
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