On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oops, thanks for catching that one Marty. I thought they both > evaluated to false.
They both evaluate to false in a boolean context but that is different from being *equal* to false or to each other. In [1]: s = '' In [2]: bool(s) Out[2]: False In [3]: s == False Out[3]: False In [4]: l = [] In [5]: bool(l) Out[5]: False In [6]: l == False Out[6]: False In [7]: s == l Out[7]: False Kent > > On 9/29/09, Martin Walsh <mwa...@mwalsh.org> wrote: >> Luke Paireepinart wrote: >>> In this case you are saying "is their input equal to this list with many >>> elements?" and the answer is always going to be No because a string >>> won't be equal to a list unless both are empty. >> >> I know you probably didn't mean this as it reads, or as I'm reading it, >> but an empty string and an empty list aren't 'equal' either. >> >> In [1]: '' == [] >> Out[1]: False >> >> HTH, >> Marty _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
