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So we are going to talk about the logical values of true and false here, and for

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this purpose I have started up the Python Shell, which on the graphical

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interfaces will be called Idle, or if you're in a command-line interface, it's

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simply the Python interpreter. It gets you exactly the same interface.

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So, I'm going to start by creating couple of variables. We'll call them a and b,

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and we'll assign them values of zero and 1 a, b - 0, 1.

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And I'm going to say a==b, and so the double equal sign is the equality operator.

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It tests for equality between two values, and it returns either True or False.

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In this case it returns False, and false is actually a keyword in Python, which is a

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Boolean value for False.

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So, if I say a < b, I will get the Boolean value True, or a > b, I'll get the

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Boolean value False.

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In fact, you can assign True and False to variables. I can say a = True, and if

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I type a by itself, I get True. If I type, type of a, you'll see it is class 'bool'.

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So, True and False are objects of class 'bool,' and they are mutable objects of course.

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So, if I type id of a, I get an id, and if I assign b = True and type id of b, I

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get exactly the same id.

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In fact, if I simply type id of True id, I will get that id.

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So, true and false are Boolean objects, and they are very simple, and they're

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simply used for representing the Boolean values of true and false.