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Booleans - Python Tutorial
From the course: Python Essential Training
Booleans
We looked at Booleans earlier, and you might have been left with the impression that there's not a lot left to say about them. True and false, right? How hard could it be? Well, there are a few actually tricky aspects of them that we need to cover. And because I'll use them day in and day out as a programmer, it's extremely important to cover these. Honestly, I occasionally find myself bringing up a Python terminal to double check a line of Boolean logic or confirm exactly how Python handles one case or another. So let's go to the code. The first thing I want to talk about is casting. So Python will cast integers to Booleans pretty nicely. One is true, and of course, zero is false. In fact, anything except a zero will be cast to a Boolean true. So something like negative one might feel false to us, but be careful, to Python, it's true. Even something like, let's do imaginary one, that's true. However, imaginary 0 or float 0 are both false, so 0.0 and if we do 0j, they're false. Okay…
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