On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 2:35:13 AM UTC+2, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: > NOTE: The case in question was never comparing to True; it was comparing to > NULL. > > There is no "No: if x == None" below, because None is not Boolean. > Similarly comparing a pointer to NULL is not the same as comparing it to a > Boolean. > > So I would favor the "Explicit is better than Implicit" in the example cited.
Thus, my 4 Zen points are accurately interconnected: Being simple and explicit with your code leads to elegant results that are indeed quite pleasant to read. > > Roger Christman > Pennsylvania State University > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017, Setfan Ram wrote: > > =?UTF-8?B?zqPPhM6tz4bOsc69zr/PgiDOo8+Jz4bPgc6/zr3Or86/z4U=?= > >>I guess the following parts from "Zen of Python" apply to this case: > > > > If we would agree to apply Python rules to C, > > then we could also use this excerpt from PEP 8: > > > >|o Don't compare boolean values to True or False using ==. > >| > >|Yes: if greeting: > >|No: if greeting == True: > >|Worse: if greeting is True: > > > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
