Aw: Try: Except: evaluates to True every time

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Sun Nov 5 08:59:11 EST 2017


On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 09:53 pm, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 11:28:44AM +1100, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> > Try in an interactive interpreter:
>> > 
>> >    python> "a string" is True
>> 
>> Did you try that yourself?
> 
> Yes, eventually, which is why I corrected myself publicly.

Oops, didn't see that.




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