Removing None objects from a sequence

[Lie Ryan]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:55:20 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:18:36 +0000, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> Personally, I'd prefer VB's version:
>> foo IsNot bar
>> 
>> or in pseudo-python
>> foo isnot bar
>> 
>> since that would make it less ambiguous.
> 
> "a is not b" is no more ambiguous than "1+2*3". True, there's ambiguity
> if you are ignorant of the precedence rules, but that's no worse than
> saying that "+" is ambiguous if you don't know what "+" means.
> 
> "What's this 'is' operator??? It's ambiguous, it could mean ANYTHING!!!
> Panic panic panic panic!!!"
> 
> *wink*
> 
> You're allowed to assume the normal conventions, and (lucky for me!)
> despite being Dutch Guido choose to assume the normal English convention
> that "a is not b" means the same as "not (a is b)" rather than "a is
> (not b)". That's probably because the use-cases for the second would be
> rather rare.
> 
> So given the normal precedence rules of Python, there is no ambiguity.
> True, you have to learn the rules, but that's no hardship.

*I* know about the precedence rule, but a newbie or a tired programmer 
might not. He might want to reverse the truth value of argument b but 
instead has just reversed the whole expression. Probably in a slightly 
convoluted code like this:

if a is not(b and c): 
   ...