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Comparison Operators

Explore Python's comparison operators and identity operators to understand how they compare values and memory locations. Learn about boolean outcomes, the concept of integer interning, and why floating-point comparisons require special consideration due to binary representation limits.

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Comparison operators can be used to compare values in mathematical terms. The precedence of comparison operator is same.

Symbol

Operator

>

Greater Than

<

Less Than

>=

Greater Than or Equal To

<=

Less Than or Equal To

==

Equal To

!=

Not Equal To

Output of comparison operators

The result of a comparison is always a bool. If the comparison is correct, the value of the bool will be True. Otherwise, its value will be False.

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Python 3.10.4
num1 = 5
num2 = 10
num3 = 10
print(num2 > num1)   
print(num1 > num2)   
print(num2 == num3)  
print(num3 != num1) 
print(3 + 10 == 5 + 5)  
print(3 <= 2)

Identity operators

In Python, the is and is not operators are used to compare the memory ...