Rajarshi wrote: > This is a slightly naive question, but I know that 0 can be used to > represent False. So > > >>>>0 == False > > True > > But, I know I can use [] to represent False as in > > >>>>if not []: print 'empty' > > ... > empty > > But then doing the following gives a surprising (to me!) result > > >>>>[] == False > > False > > Could anybody point out why this is the case? > > Thanks, > Rajarshi >
Meditate on: py> isinstance(False, int) True py> isinstance([], int) False py> bool([]) False James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
