[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Shai Berger]

On Wednesday 05 March 2014 12:44:07 Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> I actually find the idea of truth-testing a value that's expected to
> have a type that is always true *more* unintuitive than an explicit
> "is not None", so I'd fix the above code regardless of what the truth
> value of midnight is.
> 

I can appreciate this point of view, but I think it is not the position 
generally taken by Python (if it were, Boolean evaluation of an object of a 
type that is always true would have raised an exception).

Shai.