Logical Operator

Logical operators are used to combine conditional statements and returns Boolean value.

operator	Description	Example
and	If both the operands are true then condition becomes true	a and b
or	If any of the two operands are non-zero then condition becomes true	a or b
not	Used to reverse the logical state of its operand	not a

Truth Table

x=True
y=False
print(x and y)
print(x or y)
print(not x)
print(10>5 and 10<20)

Output:

False
True
False
True

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