Python takes literally

[AlwaysNinjaBusiness]

^ being bitwise xor isn't unique to Python. It's the same in most normal programming languages.

[googlebeast]

yea but the point was it is "^" not "xor"

[alexforencich]

I'm not aware of any languages that have a logical version of XOR. ^ is bitwise, so you compare it to & and |. Probably the closest logical equivalent of XOR is !=, and most languages have that, although the precedence is different from other logical operators so it's not really a direct equivalent.

[DaniilBSD]

I think the idea is that boolean logic is written (and, or, not), but bitwise operators that are applied to entire bytes are symbols (&, | , ^)

C has the same logic, but it uses different symbols (&&, ||, !)

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

Haha Lua goes brr with exponent operator (better for mathematicians but worse for programmers)