Carsten Gehling wrote:
>
> for i in range(1, 3):
> print "The loop ran %d time%s" % (i, ('', 's')[i != 1])
>
> The tuple ('', 's') has indexes 0 and 1. Does that mean, that the boolean
> "true" value in Python is 1 and not -1?
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/Booleans.html#l2h-292
-Peter