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Dan Bishop  
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 More options May 25 2007, 9:02 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
From: Dan Bishop <danb...@yahoo.com>
Date: 24 May 2007 16:02:20 -0700
Local: Fri, May 25 2007 9:02 am
Subject: Re: 0 == False but [] != False?
On May 24, 1:59 am, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote:
...

> False is just a constant.  0, (), '', [], and False are all constants that
> happen to evaluate to a false value in a Boolean context, but they are not
> all the same.

> As a general rule, I've found code like "if x == False" to be a bad idea in
> ANY language.

I have a job as a C++ programmer, and they make us write it like that,
apparently because the ! operator is hard to see.  But "if (x ==
TRUE)" is discouraged.

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