Re: Coding style

From: Steve Holden <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:41:11 +0100

tac-tics wrote:

Or even just:

lst = []

;-)

Indeed.

I'd say the second one. Empty lists are not false. They are empty. Long
live dedicated boolean data types.

Take them off to where they belong!

I'll bet you still write

if a>3 == True:

don't you ;-)

regards
Steve
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