Paul Rubin wrote: > No. True and False are boolean values, where booleans are a different > data type from strings, just like strings are different from integers. > > >>> if s: > print 'hi' > > converts s to a boolean during evaluation.
Oh!!! I get it now! I was thinking that if s was the same as if s == True because I know sometimes you can write if statements this way (though it's wordy). But what I didn't realize was that in the cases I was thinking of, 's' was an expression that evaluated to a boolean value, not an actual value of some other type! So I suppose if (10 > 5) would be the same as if (10 > 5) == True because (10 > 5) does evaluate to "True". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
