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>>>> 0 == False > But, I know I can use [] to represent False as in >>>> if not []: print 'empty' > But then doing the following gives a surprising (to me!) result >>>> [] == False > Could anybody point out why this is the case? if x: is not the same thing as if x == True: it's the same as if bool(x): So a more meaningful comparison of your two tests are: >>> bool(0) == bool(False) -- Rajarshi wrote: Because "representing False" (i.e., being false) and "being the same as
> This is a slightly naive question, but I know that 0 can be used to
> represent False. So
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False" are not the same thing.
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True
>>> bool([]) == bool(False)
True
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