conditional execution boolean expressions boolean expression is an expression that is either true or false the following examples use the operator ==which compares two operands and produces true if they are equal and false otherwise = true = false true and false are special values that belong to the class boolthey are not stringstype(truetype(falsethe =operator is one of the comparison operatorsthe others arex ! > < is is not is not equal to is greater than is less than is greater than or equal to is less than or equal to is the same as is not the same as although these operations are probably familiar to youthe python symbols are different from the mathematical symbols for the same operations common error is to use single equal sign (=instead of double equal sign (==remember that is an assignment operator and =is comparison operator there is no such thing as