Python Booleans: Use Truth Values in Your Code

The Python Boolean type is one of Python’s built-in data types. It’s used to represent the truth value of an expression. For example, the expression 1 <= 2 is True, while the expression 0 == 1 is False. Understanding how Python Boolean values behave is important to programming well in Python.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

• Manipulate Boolean values with Boolean operators
• Convert Booleans to other types
• Convert other types to Python Booleans
• Use Python Booleans to write efficient and readable Python code

The Python Boolean Type

The Python Boolean type has only two possible values:

1. True
2. False

No other value will have bool as its type. You can check the type of True and False with the built-in type():