On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Vikas BN <vikas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on a script to parse XML files and am using > cElementTree for the same. However, > I was under the impression that anything that's a None type or 0 or > "" would evaluate to False > and the rest would be True (incl an instance of an object).
Any object that has a __len__ defined will evaulate to False in a boolean context if __len__ returns 0. (See also __nonzero__). See section 5.1 here: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html I hope this answers your question. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
