22 Dec
2003
22 Dec
'03
9:50 a.m.
[Guido]
None inherits most of its semantics from C's NULL -- that's where None being false comes from.
I know that's where it came from, but Python adds its own twists. If it really wanted to act like C's NULL, then
print >> None, "oops"
should segfault <wink>. There's nothing "wrong" about None evaluating to false in a Boolean context, it's simply one choice that *could* have made -- and better than most.