question about True values

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Oct 26 19:14:15 EDT 2006


At Thursday 26/10/2006 19:57, Ben Finney wrote:

>Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> > At Wednesday 25/10/2006 23:29, Paul Rubin wrote:
> > >Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> > >I get that iter(()) is True (Python 2.3.4).
> >
> > It's False on 2.4.2 - and perhaps it's what one would expect, but
> > since this behavior is not documented anywhere, one should not count
> > on it.
>
>Doesn't this fall under "any empty sequence" in the following list of
>evaluates-to-false:
>
>     <URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html>

Not exactly, because an iterator is not a sequence.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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