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