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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:51:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Truthiness
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just out of academic interest, is there somewhere in the Python docs where
> the following is explained?


Yes:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-testing
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-testing

Skip

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