musingattheruins at my-deja.com wrote: > if len(shoe)>0: print shoe, hit_on_head() real python programmers use: if shoe: print shoe, hit_on_head() for more information, read the fine manual; section 5.10 in the language reference describes what's true and what's false: http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/lambda.html </F>