John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm a little confused. Why doesn't s evaluate to True in the first
> part, but it does in the second? Is the first statement something
> different?
No. True and False are boolean values, where booleans are a different
data type from strings, just like strings are different from integers.
>>> if s:
print 'hi'
converts s to a boolean during evaluation. That is, it's the same as
if bool(s): print 'hi'
bool(s) is a function that converts s to a bool. If s is a string,
bool(s) is true if s is nonempty, false otherwise.
A comparable thing with integers: suppose
x = 3.1
then "x == 3" is false, but "int(x) == 3" is true.
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