and / or operators return value [duplicate]

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The and and or operators do return one of their operands, not a pure boolean value like True or False:

>>> 0 or 42
42
>>> 0 and 42
0

Whereas not always returns a pure boolean value:

>>> not 0
True
>>> not 42
False

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