Andrew Berg, 15.07.2012 10:34: > This has probably been discussed before, but why is there an implicit > conversion to a boolean in if and while statements?
There isn't. This has nothing to do with "if" or "while". All objects have a truth value in Python, evaluating to True by default (object), unless they implement the test themselves. As Chris said, very convenient. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list