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

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/05/2014 07:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:23:37PM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
>
>> It’s hard to do any sort of search for this, however in an informal poll where I’ve shown
>> people this code not a single person thought it made sense, and most of them responded
>> with “wtf?”.
>
> Well I don't know who these people are, what their background is, or
> exactly how you phrased the question. But in my experience, most
> programmers have extremely strongly held opinions about the sensibility
> of certain features that have little or nothing with any rational
> analysis of the pros and cons and far more likely to be "that's
> different from the first language I learned, therefore it's rubbish".

As part of learning Python, I learned one of its core tenets was the divide between something and nothing (some of that 
from you, I believe ;),  midnight is most certainly something, so I was very surprised to learn that bool(midnight) is 
False.

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~Ethan~