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Re: Truthiness

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On 10/23/2014 04:47 PM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Just out of academic interest, is there somewhere in the Python docs where the following is explained?
>>
>>>>> 3 == True
>> False
>>>>> if 3:
>> 	print("It's Twue")
>> 	
>> It's Twue
>>
>> i.e. in the if statement 3 is True but not in the first
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-if-statement
>
> says: "The if statement [...] selects exactly one of the suites by
> evaluating the expressions one by one until one is found to be true (see
> section Boolean operations for the definition of true and false)"
>

Exactly, but in

if 3 == True:

the expression is 3==True , in which 3 and True compare unequal, thus, 
the expression is false.
On the other hand, in

if 3:

the expression to evaluate is just the int object and the rules below apply.

> and then:
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#booleans
>
> says: "In the context of Boolean operations, and also when expressions
> are used by control flow statements, the following values are
> interpreted as false: False, None, numeric zero of all types, and empty
> strings and containers (including strings, tuples, lists, dictionaries,
> sets and frozensets). All other values are interpreted as true."
>
> (links are to the 2.7 version of the reference manual, I think not much
> has changed in 3.* versions.)
>
> -- Alain.
>

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Truthiness Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie@gmail.com> - 2014-10-23 07:30 -0700
  Re: Truthiness Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-23 08:45 -0600
    Re: Truthiness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-24 11:42 +1100
  Re: Truthiness Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-10-23 16:47 +0200
    Re: Truthiness Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-10-23 17:01 +0200
    Re: Truthiness Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-23 16:07 +0000
  Re: Truthiness Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-10-23 16:49 +0200
  Re: Truthiness Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-10-23 09:51 -0500
  Re: Truthiness Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie@gmail.com> - 2014-10-23 07:56 -0700
    Re: Truthiness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-10-23 11:24 -0400

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