On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Converting 0 and 1 to False and True seems reasonable, but I don't see > the point in converting other arbitrary values.
It's for convenience. Unfortunately, not all languages treat all types the same way. It's very handy, though, to be able to use if not foo: foo = some_initializer when foo starts out as, say, None. Or []. Or, in fact, any other "empty" value. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
