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I thought =
was a mathematical operator, not a logical operator; why does Python use
=
instead of ==
, or
<=
instead of <==
, or
!=
instead of !==
?
Thanks in advance for any clarification. I would have posted this in the help forums of FreeCodeCamp, but I wasn’t sure if this question was too…unspecified(?) for that domain.
Cheers!
I’ve written code before in some hardware-specific languages before (I think it was for programming a stepper motor or something?) that used
=
for both assignment and comparison. If I recall correctly, the language was vaguely C-like, but assignment was not permitted in the context of a comparison. So something likeif( a = (b+c) )
would not assign a value toa
, it would just do the comparison.