True inconsistency in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Scott Chapman wrote:

> Historically Python has allowed <> 0 to equal true in evaluations. 
> Now
> <> 0 still evaluates to true in evaluations. However it doesn't equal
> True.  They are not interchangable.  (Same with empty lists, etc.)

That's because the proper way to test for truth does not use the True
value at all.  It is this:

	if x:
	    ...

not this:

	if x == True:
	    ...

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