Hi All,
I'm working on a script to parse XML files and am using
cElementTree for the same. However,
I was under the impression that anything that's a None type or 0 or
"" would evaluate to False
and the rest would be True (incl an instance of an object).
That doesn't seem to work with the Element instance. Here's what I get :
>>> import xml.etree.cElementTree as cet
>>> f1 = '/home/vikasn/test.xml'
>>> t1 = cet.parse(f1)
>>>root = t1.getroot()
>>> children = root.getchildren()
>>> len(children)
3
>>> c1 = children[0]
>>> if c1:
... print "true"
... else:
... print "false"
...
false
>>> c1
<Element 'name' at 0x2afb45073a50>
Because of this, I need to resort to clunky stuff like so:
if c1.tag:
# do something
To test if my understanding of what evaluates to true/false is
correct or not, I tried the following and seems to be what I expect
would happen.
>>> class Test(object):
... def __init__(self, num):
... print num
... self.num = num
...
>>> t = Test(1)
1
>>> t
<__main__.Test object at 0x2afb4507c610>
>>> if t:
... print "yes"
... else:
... print "no"
...
yes
>>>
Anyone else encountered this or even have any insights regarding
this behaviour? I'm using Python2.7.2 on Linux
if that matters.
Thanks!
Vikas
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