Argument of the bool function

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:26 PM, candide <candide at free.invalid> wrote:
> About the standard function bool(), Python's official documentation tells us
> the following :
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> bool([x])
> Convert a value to a Boolean, using the standard truth testing procedure.
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> In this context, what exactly a "value" is referring to ?
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> For instance,
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>>>> x=42
>>>> bool(x=5)
> True
>>>>
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> but _expression_ :
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> x=42
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> has no value.
>

That's because bool(x=5) isn't doing what you think.

>>> bool(y=5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'y' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

bool(x=5) is just passing the value 5 as the argument "x" to the function.

"value" means just what you'd think- any constant or any value that's
been assigned to.

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