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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:38:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> It already is part of the collection interface: it is spelled __nonzero__
> (Python 2) or __bool__ (Python 3), and like all dunder methods, it is
> called automatically for you when you use the right syntax:

You're still ignoring what I actually said.

-- Devin