candide <candide@free.invalid> writes: > Le 17/04/2011 11:46, Ben Finney a écrit : > > What is the “shortcut” you refer to? > > bool(x) is nothing more than a shortcut for the following expression : > True if x else False.
We're going around in circles. I've already pointed out that ‘bool(x)’ is what the expression you're talking about will do behind the scenes for the ‘if x’ clause *anyway*. It's bizarre to call that a shortcut. You seem to expect the documentation to be explicit about everything the implementation does. Either that, or you're not making much sense. -- \ “Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in | `\ behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
