question about True values

[John Salerno]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> No.  True and False are boolean values, where booleans are a different
> data type from strings, just like strings are different from integers.
> 
>   >>> if s:
> 	print 'hi'
> 
> converts s to a boolean during evaluation.


Oh!!! I get it now! I was thinking that

if s

was the same as

if s == True

because I know sometimes you can write if statements this way (though 
it's wordy). But what I didn't realize was that in the cases I was 
thinking of, 's' was an expression that evaluated to a boolean value, 
not an actual value of some other type!

So I suppose

if (10 > 5)

would be the same as

if (10 > 5) == True

because (10 > 5) does evaluate to "True".