question about True values

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Oct 26 20:18:56 EDT 2006


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).
>>
No I didn't - that was Paul Rubin.

>>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>
> 

regards
  Steve
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