Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > but seriously, unless you're writing an introspection tool, testing for > > > bool is pretty silly. just use "if v" or "if not v", and leave the rest > > > to > > > Python. > > > > > The OP's code(and his work around) doesn't look like he is testing for > > boolean > > which of course explains why he wrote > > In some program I was testing if a variable was a boolean > > in the post I replied to... > > > but more like the data type of something. I thought there is some idiom > > in python which said something like "don't assume" ? > > "think before you post" ? > Don't know what you mean.
He seems to be testing "boolean type", not whether it is true or false. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
