That IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will foolus.
One of my favorite math jokes is like that. A teacher asked a student to
reduce the following fraction:
16
----
64
He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is 1/4".
I like.
But in the OP, the difference between "and" and "&", or "or" and "|",
is subtle yet absolute. They are completely different operators. The
bitwise operators function like the arithmetic operators - evaluate
both operands, then do something that combines them into one value.
The logical operators, though, are more like the if statement:
q = a and b
is similar to:
if a:
q = a
else:
q = b
(Pedants, please note that I said "similar" not "equivalent".) They
happen to do similar things, but they're completely different in
operation. I do like the humour value from the careful selection of
operands though!
Chris Angelico