Re: The if is not working properly

2019-05-19 Thread MRAB

On 2019-05-19 11:29, Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 18May2019 13:22, nobelio  wrote:
When you print the variable “a” it appears as True, but the program is 
it is not getting in the if a==True:


It may be that "a" is not the Boolean value True but something else. But
that is just a guess. Please reply and paste in a small example
programme showing this problem.


My guess is that it's the string 'True'.
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Re: The if is not working properly

2019-05-19 Thread Alister via Python-list
On Sun, 19 May 2019 20:29:35 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 18May2019 13:22, nobelio  wrote:
>>When you print the variable “a” it appears as True, but the program is
>>it is not getting in the if a==True:
> 
> It may be that "a" is not the Boolean value True but something else. But
> that is just a guess. Please reply and paste in a small example
> programme showing this problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson 

also if a==True is unnecessarily verbose
if a: would suffice
(unless you explicitly want True & not just a truthy value in which case 
use
if a is True:
 
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Re: The if is not working properly

2019-05-19 Thread Cameron Simpson

On 18May2019 13:22, nobelio  wrote:
When you print the variable “a” it appears as True, but the program is 
it is not getting in the if a==True:


It may be that "a" is not the Boolean value True but something else. But 
that is just a guess. Please reply and paste in a small example 
programme showing this problem.


Cheers,
Cameron Simpson 
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