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Learn Python in 7 Days
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Learn Python in 7 Days

by Mohit Raj, Bhaskar N. Das
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Boolean data type

A Boolean data type generally has only two values 'True' or 'False'. Boolean data type is a sub type of integers.

Syntax:

<variable name>=<'True' or 'False'> 

Boolean data types can be referred to as an on and off switch, which has only two values to chose from:

In the preceding example, we try to compare the value of x with the value of y, and when we use the == operator, the value of the Boolean is returned as True.

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