On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:20:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 11, 3:55 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You got those results because that's what your program does. > > > > Were you intending it to do something else? If so, you're > > going to have to explain what you wanted, because we can't
> According to my output, it seems that arg is False even when I > give an option of '-o' which according to the book should be > True. No? '-o' is not equal to True. However, that does not mean it evaluates to false when tested by an if or while statement. > If arg == ['-o'] then shouldn't arg == True return True and > skip the if? No. See the folloing link regarding the "truth value" of an object: http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html There are many objects other than True that evaluate to "true" in the context of an if/while statement. Just because an objecty has a "true" truth-value doesn't mean that it is equal to the True object. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Why don't you ever at enter any CONTESTS, visi.com Marvin?? Don't you know your own ZIPCODE? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
