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Expand Up @@ -319,10 +319,12 @@ A big part of programming includes comparing things. What's the easiest thing to
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>>> 1 == 1
True
>>> 5 != 2
True

We gave Python some numbers to compare. As you can see, Python can compare not only numbers, but it can also compare method results. Nice, huh?

Do you wonder why we put two equal signs `==` next to each other to compare if numbers are equal? We use a single `=` for assigning values to variables. You always, __always__ need to put two `==` if you want to check if things are equal to each other.
Do you wonder why we put two equal signs `==` next to each other to compare if numbers are equal? We use a single `=` for assigning values to variables. You always, __always__ need to put two `==` if you want to check if things are equal to each other. We can also state that things are unequal to each other. For that, we use the symbol `!=`, as shown in the example above.

Give Python two more tasks:

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