"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> writes: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:20:31 -0200 > "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > > En Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:55:23 -0200, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> > > escribió: > > > I think it's because midnight is to the time of day what zero is to > > > integers, or an empty string is to strings, or an empty container ... > > > > So chr(0) should be False too... > > >>> chr(0) > '\x00' > > That's not an empty string. This is like... > > >>> bool([0]) > True > > Now if Python had a char type one might expect the zero char to be > False but a collection of anything, even if the elements are False, is > not empty and hence is True.
And, as Halmos said: A box that contains a hat and nothing else is not the same thing as a hat.... :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
