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Freddy Venegas
1,226 Pointsnot operator, real world application?
What would be a real world example of using the not operator?
For example, let's say:
employees = ['Fred', 'Ben', 'Harry']
if 'Fred' in employees:
print('he works here')
That makes complete sense to me, but I can't seem to wrap my head around the 'not' operator...? Help would be much appreciated.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherWell what if we had this scenario. What if Fred is an employee of the store in question but not a manager. Maybe there is only certain code that should run if the person is also a manager? Or you want to print an error about needing more privileges on the system for employees that are not managers?
Or even more simply: What if a manager has access to an address list for employees that includes a search function (maybe it's a really big company). And when the manager does a search it comes up with a "Not found" if the person is not in the employees list.
Just some ideas off the top of my head
Freddy Venegas
1,226 PointsAh, I see. Yes, this clarifies it quite nicely. Thank you for the response.