On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> 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,
Sorry, but this still doesn't make sense to me.
>>> x=('i' in 'i')
>>> x
True
>>> y='i'
>>> x==y
False
I understand that anything that's not 'empty' or zero evaluates to
True *when cast as a Boolean* by the operation in question:
>>> if y: print "It's True!"
...
It's True!
But the == operator doesn't cast its operands as Booleans; it merely
*returns* a Boolean.
Or is the point that in the original case the == operator *is*
casting item to Boolean because it's comparing it with another
Boolean? That's kind of strange, especially considering that in my
example above, it *didn't* do that.
I still don't understand what's going on. :)
--
-dave----------------------------------------------------------------
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