Fwd: PEP: add a `no` keyword as an alias for `not`

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:25:21PM -0700, Daniel Okey-Okoro wrote:

> Good point Calvin,
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> But in many cases, when people write `if not val` they're checking if the
> val is `None`
>
> i.e. `if val is None`, `if val == None`
>
> (so in effect it's kind of like they're checking if "something isn't there")

No. Something being None does not mean something isn't there.

Something isn't there if something isn't there:

	hasattr(object_or_scope_to_check, 'name_of_attribute')

Karsten
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