How do boolean operators work in 'if' conditions?

Question

I am currently new to Python and am trying to run a few simple lines of code. I cannot understand how Python is evaluating this syntax after the if statement. Any expla

Answer 1

The or operator takes two arguments, on its left and right sides, and performs the following logic:

1. Evaluate the stuff on the left-hand side.
2. If it is a truthy value (e.g, bool(x) is True, so it's not zero, an empty string, or None), return it and stop.
3. Otherwise, evaluate the stuff on the right-hand side and return that.

As such, 1 or 2 or 3 is simply 1, so your expression turns into:

if number == (1):

If you actually mean number == 1 or number == 2 or number == 3, or number in (1, 2, 3), you'll need to say that.

(Incidentally: The and operator works the same way, except step 2 returns if the left-hand-side is falsey.)