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Boolean values in Python are the special True and False objects.

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So if I say 5 == 5, I get the True value back.

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And if I say 7 < 5, I get the False value back.

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So True and False are special values. They're actually of a Boolean class.

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If I say, type(True) <class 'bool'>.

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And we have a couple of operators for dealing especially with Boolean values.

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So if I say True and False, like that, I get False.

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If I say True and True, I get True.

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If I say True or False, that's True.

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If I say False or False, that's False.

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So the and, and the or operators, the ones that are spelled out as words, are

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especially Boolean operators.

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These are different then the bitwise, and, or.

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So if I say True & True, like this, I get True.

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The difference is that's a bitwise operator.

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I'm doing bitwise arithmetic, as opposed to simply Boolean arithmetic.

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I'm doing bitwise arithmetic, which is different then the Boolean operators.

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So the Boolean operators are and and or spelled out.

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And they're useful for things like this. If I have,

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say, two values a, b and they're 0, 1, and if I have another two values x, y and

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they're spelled out say 'zero', 'one',

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and I say x < y, which of course is False,

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and a < b, which of course is True,

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so I could say, if I wanted to, if a < b and x < y, of course, that won't be

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True print('yes') else:

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print('no') and it prints no.

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And so here I'm combining these two Boolean values. a < b, will result in a

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Boolean value of True. x < y results in a Boolean value of False.

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And so if they're both True, which they're not, we would print('yes').

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And if they're not both True then we'll print('no').

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So this is where you use the Boolean operators.

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You use them when you're operating on two Boolean values.

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And you're get these Boolean values typically in a comparison operation, like

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less than, or greater than, or one of the comparison operators that we covered in

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our movie on comparison operators.

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So that's the use of the Boolean operators, as opposed to the bitwise operators.