Request for feedback on my first Python program

[Erik Max Francis]

Sean Legassick wrote:

> I specifically wanted to point out that
> 
> if X:
>    return True
> else:
>    return False
> 
> is a particularly ugly and surprisingly common redundancy - in many
> languages...

What you write here is not necessarily redundant, provided that X is not
a Boolean.  There may be more compact ways to write it, but that doesn't
mean that the above code is wrong.

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