Boolean operators in Python

Question

When reading logical operators in python, I came across expressions:

  5 and 1 

output: 1

  5 or 1 

output: 5

Can anyone explain how this works?
I know that operands of logical operators are Boolean

Answer 1

which is well documented :

x or y      if x is false, then y, else x 
x and y     if x is false, then x, else y 

both short circuits (for example, orwill not evaluate yif xtrue).

the documentation also states that is false ( False, 0, None, empty sequences / matching ...) - everything else is considered to be true.

a few examples:

7 and 'a'             # -> 'a'
[] or None            # -> None
{'a': 1} or 'abc'[5]  # -> {'a': 1}; no IndexError raised from 'abc'[5]
False and 'abc'[5]    # -> False; no IndexError raised from 'abc'[5]

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Answer 2

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>>> 1 and 2
2
>>> 2 and 1
1
>>> 1 and 2 and 3
3
>>> 1 and 0 and 2
0
>>> 0 and 1 and 2
0

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>>> 0 or 1
1
>>> 1 or 0
1
>>> 1 or 2
1
>>> 2 or 1
2
>>> 0 or 0 or 1
1
>>> 0 or 1 or 2
1

Answer 3

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