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Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 23:42:45 +1000
Subject: Re: checking if a list is empty
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:45 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> And then we get the interesting result that
> (True = True) is False

How does this work? In Python, the = sign is illegal there, and if you
mean True == True, then it's True (obviously), which is not False.

Chris Angelico