Need help with Python class idioms

[Jonathan Daugherty]

# P.S. Since you're asking about idiom, it would be more Pythonic to write:
# 
#     if self.mandatoryVar1 is None:
# 
# using the identity test "is" rather than equality test "==", since there is 
# only one None.

I'd write

  if not self.mandatoryVar1:

but the first method works, too.

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