On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Wolfgang Meiners <wolfgangmeiner...@web.de> wrote: > That means: > if maxlength and (len(string) <= maxlength): > > is equivalent to > if (maxlength is not None) and (len(string) <= maxlength):
On the contrary, it means they are distinctly NOT equivalent. The shorter form would treat a maximum length of 0 as meaning "unlimited". Now, that's an understandable notation, but it's not what's given here; if None means unlimited, then 0 should enforce that string == "". ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
