while True or while 1

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Tuesday 14 December 2010, 21:38:47 Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> writes:
> [...]
>
> > Tres Seavers once told me a joke like this:
> >
> >    True = not not "Who's at the door?" # say it out loud!
> >
> > This was back in the old days of Zope 2.5 and Python 2.1, which
> > didn't have True and False.
>
> I almost used:
>
>     True = "to be" or not "to be" # that is the question

That's wrong:

>>> "to be" or not "to be"
'to be'

You need to wrap it with bool() at least (even without interpreting 
Pythons answer to the duality contradiction of consciousness for 
now ;-))

> but didn't dare!

Pete