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Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
From: James Stroud <jstr...@mbi.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:06:31 -0700
Local: Thurs, May 24 2007 3:06 pm
Subject: Re: 0 == False but [] != False?
Rajarshi wrote: Meditate on: > This is a slightly naive question, but I know that 0 can be used to > represent False. So >>>>0 == False > True > 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 > False > Could anybody point out why this is the case? > Thanks, py> isinstance(False, int) James You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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