In message <685761fe-b052-4d89-92d3-17d1f2a39...@p2g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Paul McGuire wrote:
> While sifting through some code looking for old "x and y or z" code > that might better be coded using "y if x else z", I came across this > puzzler: > > x = <boolean expression> and True or False I suspect the “boolean expression” isn’t actually evaluating to a Boolean at all, this is simply a long-winded way of converting values that Python treats as “false” (e.g. None, 0, what else?) to actual False, and everything else to True. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
