Re: "0 in [True,False]" returns True

[quentel . pierre]

Thanks for the link Carsten, the explanation is clear

I didn't know where to search in the Python documentation, there isn't
a section about keywords (always wondered why without daring to say -
now it's done). So I typed ' "in" operator Python ' in Google, which
gave :
- on the first page a link to AM Kuchling's and Moshe Zadka's "What's
new in Python 2.0" which said :
"obj in seq returns true if obj is present in the sequence seq; Python
computes this by simply trying every index of the sequence until either
obj is found or an IndexError is encountered"
- on the second page a link to the Python tutorial that says : "The
comparison operators in and not in check whether a value occurs (does
not occur) in a sequence"

I couldn't tell if "present in the sequence" or "obj is found" or
"occurs/does not occur in a sequence" meant "is equal to" or "is the
same object as". The answer you pointed me to is clear, but for some
reason I didn't have the idea of looking in the section "Sequence Types
-- str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange" for the definition of
"in" (after all "in" is also used in list comprehensions, generator
expressions, exec, etc... and for iteration on iterators)

Regards,
Pierre

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Re: "0 in [True,False]" returns True

[quentel . pierre]

Ok, I'll explain why I wanted to test if the value was a boolean

I have a program that generates HTML tags with attributes. The
principle is that
TAG('text',arg1=val1,arg2=val2)
generates
text

For HTML attributes that don't have an explicit value (such as the
SELECTED attribute in OPTION) the keyword argument to the function must
have the value True

My program has a class for each tag, all derived from a generic TAG
class whose __init__ method takes the arguments :
def __init__(self, innerHTML="", **attrs):

I have to handle differently the cases where the value is a boolean or
another type:
- if it's a boolean then if the value is True, generate the argument
name ; if the value is False, don't generate anything
- if it's not a boolean, generate arg="val". Specifically, it val is 0,
generate val = "0"

Testing with "if v:" as suggested would fail for val = 0

Anyway, I exposed my silly "if v in [True,False]" just to give my
opinion that I found confusing that
0 in [True,False]
or (boolean type checking set aside)
0 in [1,range(2),False,'text']

return True

Regards,
Pierre

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Re: Web application toolkit recommendation?

[quentel . pierre]

You can also take a look at Karrigell
(http://karrigell.sourceforge.net). You can write pure Python scripts
or use a PHP-like syntax, and it is shipped with gadfly, an SQL engine,
and with KirbyBase, a database engine which uses a Pythonic syntax. As
for all the web frameworks, you can also work with the APIs available
for almost any database under the sun

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