"David Perlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I can't figure out how this would ever work at all. It seems like > it's either checking to see whether boolean TRUE is in word2, or > else > it's checking to see whether item is equal to boolean TRUE or FALSE, > and neither of those should ever be true.
It's doing the latter and since anything that's not 'empty' in Python evaluates to true we wind up checking whether true == (item in word) So if the item is in word we get true == true which is true. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
