[Python-Dev] bool(iter([])) changed between 2.3 and 2.4

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 22 03:33:42 CEST 2005


Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> The Boolean value of an
> iterator is certainly not promised by the iterator protocol as specified
> in the docs or the PEP.

But if the docs don't mention anything about true or
false values for some particular type, one tends to
assume that all values are true, as is the default
for user-defined classes.

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