Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

[Mark Lawrence]

On 16/07/2012 04:05, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> And that, the reason given in the sentence above, is the reason that we,
>> collectively all programmers, should prefer to be explicit, not merely
>> conveying meaning by implication about everything we, collectively all
>> programmers, write, including typing, use of speech-recognition software,
>> or any future technological process by which text or program code or both
>> is transcribed from the idea of the human person to a permanent form
>> recorded where other people, or non-human sentient beings, can read or
>> otherwise gain access to it for the purpose of understanding the content
>> of the test or program code or both.
>
> I'd rather be booled in oil.
>
> ChrisA
> *ducks for cover*
>

What a silly bunt[1] :)
*also ducks for cover*

[1] from a Monty Python sketch for those who don't know about a guy who 
pronounces c's as b's, hence Kings Bollege Bambridge

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.