Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:15:36 +0200, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >>If you want the behaviour of Python to change, you should >>write a PEP. It always felt natural to me to interpret empty >>as false, but I could be wrong. It's strange that this flaw >>managed to go unnoticed for so long though... >> > > Seemed to fit my world view too... So many other languages used the > "non-zero" is True, that it made sense to take "non-empty" is True -- > and if "non-empty" is true, then empty must be False. > > Of course, there is always VMS -- where status codes were checked in > LSB... odd number => true, even number => false
... and most *nix shells, where a return code of zero implies "success". Of course, this still leaves wiggle room to discuss whether success is True or False. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
