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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!
Pretty sure this is directly inspired by C so I would guess Guido van Rossum (the author of Python) just used what was already common back then. As in,
=
is assignment operator and==
is equality/comparison operator.https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_comparison