[Tutor] beginning to code

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:00 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:

>> {None, 0, "" {}, []} → False
>> Everything_else → True
>> 
>> This mapping is neither obvious nor trivial
> 
> Sufficiently non-obvious that I missed the key element:
> {None, 0, "" {}, [], False} → False

I thought it was intentional, because there's nothing more obvious than that
False is false. Unless you're a pedant and completist like me, why even bother
mentioning that False is falsey?

Especially since you left out so many more obvious values.



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Steve
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