Need help with Python class idioms

James Henderson james at logicalprogression.net
Wed Jan 21 16:24:48 EST 2004


On Wednesday 21 January 2004 9:01 pm, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> # P.S. Since you're asking about idiom, it would be more Pythonic to write:
> #
> #     if self.mandatoryVar1 is None:
> #
> # using the identity test "is" rather than equality test "==", since there
> is # only one None.
>
> I'd write
>
>   if not self.mandatoryVar1:
>
> but the first method works, too.

Are you sure an empty sequence or zero aren't valid values?  J.
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