[issue3195] invalid conversion xml.etree.ElementTree.Element object to boolean

[Pavel Strashkin]

New submission from Pavel Strashkin <xaka2004 at gmail.com>:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May  7 2008, 15:19:09)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
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>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
>>> e = Element('Test', {'attr' : 'value'})
>>> b = not e
>>> print b
True

Why i'm getting True here instead of False?
Because of this i can not do:
if not e:
    # here some logic
    pass

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components: XML
messages: 68720
nosy: xaka
severity: normal
status: open
title: invalid conversion xml.etree.ElementTree.Element object to boolean
versions: Python 2.5

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