0 == False but [] != False? - comp.lang.python

Message from discussion 0 == False but [] != False?
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From: Donn Cave <d...@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: 0 == False but [] != False?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:31:14 -0700
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In article <cd2dnRy_aJMF78HbnZ2dnUVZ_t7in...@speakeasy.net>,
 Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:

> Donn Cave wrote:
> 
> > Not that it is of no historical interest to review all these
> > reasonable arguments, but allow me to restore the context quote
> > from my follow-up:
> 
> If the counterpoints are of no historical interest, then the original 
> point must be of no historical interest either, since it was not widely 
> granted as true.

"Not that it is of no historical interest" may have been too
hard to follow, my apologies.  I should have said "It may be of
historical interest ...".  After that, you lost me, but I guess
I'm not going to worry about it.

   Donn Cave, d...@u.washington.edu