Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

[88888 Dihedral]

Rick Johnson於 2013年2月13日星期三UTC+8上午1時48分07秒寫道：
> On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:55:19 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, 88888 Dihedral wrote:
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> > > A permanently mutated list is a tuple of constant objects.
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> > I nominate this line as "bemusing head-scratcher of the week".
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> Actually the statement is fact IF you can grok it through the eyes of clarity.
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> "A permanently mutated list..."
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> A list that has been mutated permanently, that is, it cannot be changed back into a list. psst: i have a sneaking suspicion that he his referring to tuples, let's see.
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> "...is a tuple..."
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> Ha! Well in Python the immutable sequence type /is/ a tuple after all.
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> "...of constant objects..."
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> The tuple contains objects, and it's objects will maintain a constant ordering (relatively in tuple structure) until until the tuple's death. 
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>>> a1=[1,2,3]
>>> tuple1=(a1,4,5,6)
>>> tuple1
([1, 2, 3], 4, 5, 6)
>>> a1=[1,2]
>>> tuple1
([1, 2, 3], 4, 5, 6)
>>> 

Yes, a tuple of constant objects is still not clear. 


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> Your confusion may stem from interpreting "constant" as the CS term "CONSTANT"[1]; whereby the objects in the tuple are programming CONSTANTS, that is, unable to change. But in reality, although a tuple (bka:StaticList) cannot expand to add more objects, or shrink to eject existing objects, the objects themselves CAN change their own internal state WITHOUT disrupting the immutable harmony of the tuple. 
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> Observe:
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> py> class Foo(object):
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> 	pass
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> py> foo = Foo()
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> py> t = (1,'1', foo)
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> py> t
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> (1, '1', <__main__.Foo object at 0x0267BF50>)
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> py> t[-1].bar = "abc"
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> py> t
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> (1, '1', <__main__.Foo object at 0x0267BF50>)
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> Or by expanding a list
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> py> t = (1,2,3)
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> py> t = t+([],)
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> py> t
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> (1, 2, 3, [])
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> py> t[-1].append('circus')
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> py> t
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> (1, 2, 3, ['circus'])
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> [1] Which is an unfortunate side-effect of polysemy and compounded exponentially by naive (and sometimes a purely malevolent intent when) transformation of words into esoteric problem domains.