Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: > > >>Given the statement: >> >>a = None >> >>And the following are all true: >> >> a == None > > > Okay. > > >>(a) == (None) > > > Okay. > > >>(a) == () > > > Whoops! a (which is None) is equal to the empty tuple (which is not None)?
It's not an empty tuple, it's an empty parenthesis. Using tuples it would be. (a,) == (,) which would be the same as: (,) == (,) >>(None) == () >> >>Then this "conceptual" comparison should also be true: >> >>if (None): == if (): >>if (): == if: > > > I can't really see any coherent concept here. > > Reinhold It would work out that. if: == if: Does that help? Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
