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0 pointswadkar6y ago0 comments

Because chaining the operator results in:

> if x in odds == expect_odd :

> if x in odds and odds == expect_odd :

with the latter always evaluating to False (assuming expect_odd is a boolean flag).

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I'm not a Python expert so I don't know much about the internals of Python but my hunch is when Python evaluates 'x in odds' it's not storing that value internally as a boolean so when you use the '==' strict comparison Python is expecting both data types to be the same.

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