In your normal speech you could probably say something like "If status_code is 401 or 302, do something.". Meaning status_cone can be either 401 or 302.

If you tried to translate this into code directly you would write something like this:

if status_code == 401 or 302:
    pass

However, this is incorrect. This condition will always be true as this is actually same as if you wrote: if (status_code == 401) or (302) so it will compare status_code to 401, and it will separately check if 302 is True, but any number different from 0 is considered to be True so the above expression will always be True.

if status_code == 401 or status_code == 302:
    pass

An alternative way to achieve the same results would be though probably at this point we have not learned the "in" operator, nor lists (comma separated values in square brackets):

if status_code in [401, 302]:
    pass