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| author | Stanislav (Stanley) Modrak <44023416+smith558@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-08-28 18:45:40 +0100 | 
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-08-28 18:45:40 +0100 | 
| commit | 6c2c6b10760ae786621438cfd60dfd326d48be41 (patch) | |
| tree | cebed5476e0fc24d3861c2bc0932e40b1f77cbea /python.html.markdown | |
| parent | ebb3cab2494eb392dc67008abb45af5f0711b9e8 (diff) | |
Clarify casting and move bool() method section
Diffstat (limited to 'python.html.markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | python.html.markdown | 16 | 
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
| diff --git a/python.html.markdown b/python.html.markdown index e8c7110a..0b115c4e 100644 --- a/python.html.markdown +++ b/python.html.markdown @@ -85,12 +85,24 @@ False - 5   # => -5  2 == True   # => False  -5 != False # => True -# Using boolean logical operators on ints casts them to booleans for evaluation, but their non-cast value is returned -# Don't mix up with bool(ints) and bitwise and/or (&,|) +# None, 0, and empty strings/lists/dicts/tuples/sets all evaluate to False. +# All other values are True  bool(0)     # => False +bool("")    # => False +bool([])    # => False +bool({})    # => False +bool(())    # => False +bool(set()) # => False  bool(4)     # => True  bool(-6)    # => True + +# Using boolean logical operators on ints casts them to booleans for evaluation, but their non-cast value is returned +# Don't mix up with bool(ints) and bitwise and/or (&,|) +bool(0)     # => False +bool(2)     # => True  0 and 2     # => 0 +bool(-5)    # => True +bool(2)     # => True  -5 or 0     # => -5  # Equality is == | 
