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Subject: Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements
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On Monday, February 11, 2013 6:50:03 AM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Rick Johnson
> > Well i would expect anyone who considers himself a
> > python programmer (not to mention "pythonista"!) to at
> > minimum be familiar with the stdlib. [...]
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> If there is anyone here who can honestly boast knowing the ENTIRE
> stdlib of a language the size of Python, I would be impressed. Very
> impressed.

I am sure there are quite a few Chris. But if you expect to around making s=
tatements like: "Python does not have typed arrays", then don't get all ups=
et when someone corrects you.=20

Maybe, before you go and pop your mouth off next time, if it isn't too much=
 trouble, i mean, i don't want you to get a cramp in your wrist or a bliste=
r on your finger, much less a headache reading a few lines of documentation=
, but if is not too much to ask, "Mr. Angelico", i would suggest you stuff =
this tiny little code snippet into your favorite Python interpreter and run=
 it!

py> help('modules')

See, some python functions are useful.