'and' (boolean) vs '&' (bitwise) - Why difference in behavior with lists vs numpy arrays?

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01:35 Accepted answer (Score 152)
03:25 Answer 2 (Score 32)
08:18 Answer 3 (Score 23)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264...

Question links:
[This answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6490106/2098...
[this answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10246441/209...
[and]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[&]: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expre...
[bitwise operations]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BitwiseOper...

Answer 3 links:
[and]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[empty lists]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[binary literal]: http://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexic...
[arithmetic operations]: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/referenc...
[can't overload logical operators in python]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/471561/65295
[unix permission bits]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1861970/6529...

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