On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Amrith Kumar <amr...@tesora.com> wrote:
> Chris, Ihar, > > I assumed that this was stylistic based on the fact that in the places > where I was seeing it, it seemed to be the case that the LHS was > intuitively positive (a length, for example). I did not exhaustively verify > this but yes, you are correct, the construct > > If var > > is the same as (I believe) > > if var is not None Those two statements are also not the same. 'if var' will be True is 'var' is *only* True values. 'if var is not None' will be True *everything* except None, so 0, '', [], etc. will not pass the first test, but will pass the second. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek www: http://dstanek.com
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