Python style guidelines

[Heather Coppersmith]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:48:35 +0100,
Josef Meile <jmeile at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Is there something missing you think should be there?  There's no particular
>> reason a PEP needs to be continually updated.  In particular, notions of
>> good Python style haven't changed a lot over the past ten years.
>> Skip
> I agree, those are good guidelines, but I don't agree with:

> - Don't compare boolean values to True or False using == (bool
>    types are new in Python 2.3):

>          No:  if greeting == True:
>          Yes: if greeting:

> What would happened if you do:

>>>> a='test'
>>>> if a.find('foo'):
> ...    print "foo was found"
> ...
> foo was found

a.find does not return a boolean, so that particular style guideline
does not apply.

>>> if a.find( 'foo' ) == True:
...  print 'foo was found'

probably isn't what you want either.  ;-)

Regards,
Heather

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Heather Coppersmith
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