On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:34 PM 7/12/2008, Kent Johnson wrote:
>> In [2]: assert(False, "Asserted false") >> >> This is "assert condition" where the condition is a tuple with two >> elements, hence true so there is no output. > > In [13]: assert(3 < 2 , "qwerty") > > In [14]: > > I don't understand that logic. Could you unpack it for me? (False, "Asserted false") is a tuple containing two values, False and "Asserted false". "assert x" evaluates x as a boolean; if it evaluates to False, the assertion is raised. A tuple with two elements will always evaluate to True so the assertion is never raised. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
