Confused about logical operators (i.e. "comparison operators", or "boolean operators") in Python - eviltoast

Note: The attached image is a screenshot of page 31 of Dr. Charles Severance’s book, Python for Everybody: Exploring Data Using Python 3 (2024-01-01 Revision).

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!

 

Edit: I think I get it now! Thanks so much to everyone for helping, and @FizzyOrange@programming.dev and @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone in particular! ^_^

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Pascal uses = for comparison (and := for assignment), which confused the fuck out of me when I switched to C.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      5·
      2 months ago

      Some people in mathematics use := to assign functions, like f(x) := x^2; then when evaluating the function you use f(2) = 4, because it can be ser as a “true” comparison

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’ve never seen that, even in university, and it would be equally as confusing without explanation.

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
          5·
          2 months ago

          I only remember two of my professors using it, and I has to ask the first one what that mean and explain to my classmates on the second one.