while true: !!!

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Hochberg wrote:
> 
> If I attempt to summarize I get the following for false items:
> 
> * None
> * Anything that equals zero (Including a class instance with __nonzero__
> returning false)
> * An empty sequence (Including a class instance with __len__ returning 0)

The fact that it's taken about three attempts by
experienced Python people to come up with a full
and accurate characterisation of what constitute
'true' and 'false' in Python suggests that things 
could have been a lot simpler if there had been a 
dedicated boolean type!

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,	  
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