On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Alexander Blinne <n...@blinne.net> wrote: > Am 04.03.2014 15:06, schrieb Chris Angelico: >> https://github.com/Rosuav/ExceptExpr/blob/master/find_except_expr.py > > I have always found it quite nice that the python parser is so easy to > use from within python itself.
Yes. Until I put together the original version of that, to search for PEP 463 translation candidates, I'd never used the ast module other than for literal_eval. It's marvelously powerful. >> Run across the Python stdlib, that tells me there are 4040 uses of >> is/is not, of which 16 compare against False, 18 against True (see? >> Python has a bias for truth above falsehood!), and 3386 against None. > > I think i will have to rephrase my "is False" condition to make it more > truthy :) if x is False: --> if not x: ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
