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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:52:25 +0800
Subject: Strange result ffor object to bool
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Hi all,

In my program, I get a listen element by
listen = graphics.find("listen")

print listen is <Element listen at 6afc20>
print type listen is <type 'instance'>
I am sure listen is not None and can be accessed properly.

But print bool(listen) is False
if not listen  is True

-- 
Zhou Peng