What is the difference between 'and' and 'is' in Python?

'and' is a logical operator that evaluates two expressions and returns True only if both are truthy; it performs short‑circuit evaluation. 'is' is an identity operator that checks whether two references point to the same object in memory. For value equality, use '=='. Example: 2 is 2 is True because small integers are cached, but 1000 is 1000 is False because they are distinct objects.