['a', 'b'][True] results 'b' But how?
Robert Bauck Hamar
roberth+news at ifi.uio.no
Thu Jul 5 03:23:38 EDT 2007
kath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can any one please tell me how is the following code is working?
> ['a','b'] is a list of string
Yes.
> and [True] is list of boolean value.
No. It's the subscription operator applied to the list of strings.
a = ['a', 'b']
a[True]
may be clearer.
> How is it making effect....?
>>> int(True)
1
>>> int(False)
0
>>> isinstance(True, int)
True
>>> bool.__bases__
(<type 'int'>,)
> <code Python24>
>
>>>> ['a','b] [True]
> 'b'
>>>> ['a','b'] [False]
> 'a'
>>>> ['a','b']['some_string' == r'some_string']
> 'b'
>>>> ['a','b']['some_string' == r'somestring']
> 'a'
>
> <code>
--
rbh
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