How to do this in Python...

[Erik Max Francis]

Aahz wrote:

> That seems a bit odd to me.  Why test against None, instead of simply
> "if not match"?

In this particular case, it doesn't much matter, since you're guaranteed
any non-None match object will evaluate to true.  In general, though, if
you know that a value might be "something" or None, an explicit test
against None is warranted since that "something" may or may not evaluate
as false itself.

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