[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 06/03/2014 12:04, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
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> Writing
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>      if x: print ('x is None')
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> or
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>      if x == None: print ('x is None')
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> is wrong code.

No it isn't.

> None is a singleton, so you have to use the "is" operator, i.e.
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>      if x is None: print ('x is None')
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> is the only correct way of testing for None.

No it isn't.  x == None is a perfectly well-defined way of doing it, 
even if it isn't the stylistically preferred one.

Regards

Antoine.