what exactly is "None" ?

[phil hunt]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:37:11 +0100, Andrei Doicin <Andrei.Doicin at cern.ch> wrote:
>I know that "None" is the Boolean false value that
>gets thrown out when there's nothing to return or a
>function doesn't manage to reach the end of itself and thus "return
>whatever", but *what* (in Python terms) exactly is equal to "None" ???

None is equal to None. All values other than None are not equal t 
None.

>I ask this as I'm trying to set up some conditional statements that do
>something if "whatever" is equal to "None".

if whatever == None:
   print "(whatever) is None"
else:
   print "(whatever) is some value other than None"


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