Is there more encouraged ways to perform XOR operation?

Question

I met situation where I had 2 booleans and I want only 1 of them to be true for the operation to evaluate true.
By default I would stay with != comparison operator, but I think there should be a logical operator or other more encouraged way to do this, is there? (In Python or in Java)

Answer 1

Russ I used timeit, I just confused the places of operands, (^ might anyways be 3* faster than !=)

Answer 2

Russ
https://code.sololearn.com/ctdWDbimML06/?ref=app

Answer 3

Russ I think the for loop might affect the result.

Answer 4

In Python:

print(True ^ False)

returns True, as does:

print(False ^ True)

so I guess that fits the bill? Can't comment on whether such use is encouraged though.

Answer 5

Russ
Not more encouraged.

^ seems to be 3 times slower than != in Python, it might not surprise.

Answer 6

I wonder where you got "3 times worse" from - as this would appear to disagree:

https://code.sololearn.com/ca439Z3hyn3O/?ref=app

Answer 7

Seb TheS My estimate would be that ^ would be about 10% faster than !=. Not a huge difference really.

Answer 8

Fair enough, that looks fairly conclusive.

Does anyone know why I can't reach the same conclusion using my method?

Answer 9

Seb TheS Seems like the most likely answer. Code modified to try and account for that but no luck.