[Tutor] Another assert() question

[Alan Gauld]

"Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote 

> But why will a tuple with two elements will always evaluate to
> True?

Thats the rule for evaluationg collections in Python.
An empty collection is False. Anything else is therefore true

if []: -> false

if [1,2]: -> true

if (): -> false

if (1,2) - True

if "": -> False

if "foo": -> True

Does that help?

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Alan Gauld
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