Empty string is False right?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:16:19 +0000
AJ Ostergaard <aj at cubbyhole.net> wrote:
>  >>> '' and True
> ''
> 
> Surely that should be False?!?

Why?  The first value evaluates to False in a boolean context and
thus is returned in the above statement due to short circuit
evaluation but is not itself False.  You wouldn't expect the following
statement to be True.

>>> '' is False
False

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