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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 03:34:46 -0500
From: Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25341

This has probably been discussed before, but why is there an implicit
conversion to a boolean in if and while statements?

if not None:
	print('hi')
prints 'hi' since bool(None) is False.

If this was discussed in a PEP, I would like a link to it. There are so
many PEPs, and I wouldn't know which ones to look through.

Converting 0 and 1 to False and True seems reasonable, but I don't see
the point in converting other arbitrary values.

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