``if var'' and ``if var is not None''

[Piet van Oostrum]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The following two forms are always equivalent:
>
> ``if var'' and ``if var is not None'' 
>
> Regards


In [1]: var = 0

In [2]: if var:
   ...:     print('True')
   ...: else:
   ...:     print('False')
False

In [3]: if var is not None:
   ...:     print('True')
   ...: else:
   ...:     print('False')
True

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