Functions with conditionals and comparison operators

[buran]

First of all, let me say that

if (a % 2 and b % 2) != 0:

and

if a % 2 and b % 2:

have same outcome, as you can see

for a, b in ((3, 5), (2, 5), (5, 2), (4, 2)):
    print((a%2 and b%2) != 0)
    print(a%2 and b%2)

Output:
True
1
False
0
False
0
False
0

I didn't claim it will do what is required in the exercise, just it will do the same as the original code.

def min_max(a, b):
    if a%2 or b%2: # at least one is odd
        return max(a,b)
    else:
        return min(a, b)