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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Yann Kaiser writes:

 >     if event.date:
 >         schedule_event()
 > 
 > I cannot fathom one example where it could read as "does the party
 > start at midnight?".  Can you?

No, because it obviously reads as "... WTF??!?"[1]

Of course, that's because I've imbibed of the "Python is not C or C++"
Kool-Aid, but I just don't see why we should encourage C idioms in
Python when there are plenty of other cases where use of a bare
expression rather "... is None" can bite.

I find Skip Montanaro's implied issue

    Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of None

far more plausible.<wink/>

Footnotes: 
[1]  if event.date: print("Happy New Year/Century/Millennium!")