Re: Script for finding words of any size that do NOT contain vowels with acute diacritic marks?

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:27:12 -0600
Subject	Re: Script for finding words of any size that do NOT contain vowels with acute diacritic marks?
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not at all, I knew this. In this I decided to program like
> this.
>
> Do you get it?  Yes/No  or True/False

It's just bad style, because both 'yes' and 'no' evaluate true.

if HasDiacritics('éléphant'):
    print('Correct!')

if HasDiacritics('elephant'):
    print('Error!')

Prints:

Correct!
Error!

You could replace the test with "if HasDiacritics('elephant') ==
'yes':", but why force the caller to write that out when the former
test is more natural and less prone to error (e.g. typoing 'yes')?

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