True of False

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:33:34 -0700, koutoo wrote:

> I tried writing a true and false If statement and didn't get
> anything?  I read some previous posts, but I must be missing
> something.  I just tried something easy:
> 
> a = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"]
> 
> if "c" in a == True:
>      Print "Yes"
> 
> When I run this, it runs, but nothing prints.  What am I doing wrong?

Wow that's odd:

In [265]: a = list('abcdef')

In [266]: a
Out[266]: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']

In [267]: 'c' in a
Out[267]: True

In [268]: 'c' in a == True
Out[268]: False

In [269]: ('c' in a) == True
Out[269]: True

In [270]: 'c' in (a == True)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>             Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/bj/<ipython console> in <module>()

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: argument of type 'bool' is not iterable


What's going on there?

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch