Re: Coding style

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• From: dwelch91 <donald.welch@xxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:27:06 -0700

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tac-tics wrote:

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

Uh, no, empty lists are False in a boolean context:

http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html

-Don
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