True of False

[Erik Jones]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Erik Jones wrote:

>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> That is weird.  Given 270, what's happening in 268.
>
> Erik Jones

Cool, Richard Thomas answered this one for me.

Erik Jones

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