"prasad rao" <[email protected]> wrote
2==True
False
It is an unexpected result to me.
I thought any value other than 0 is True.
Any value of non zero is treated as True in a boolean context.
But aq test of equality with a boolean value is not a boolean context.
For equiality you have to compare like with like, and you do that
by taking the boolean value of the number using bool()
So:
if 2: print 'True'
else: print 'False'
will print true
but
if 2 == True: print 'True'
else: print 'False'
will print False.
The two tests are not identical.
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
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