[Tutor] While truth

[Ian D]

Or should I have said While False is True, which is never True, because False is False not True

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> From: duxbuz at hotmail.com
> To: tutor at python.org
> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:25:48 +0000
> Subject: [Tutor] While truth
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> I was reading a tutorial that had these examples in it:
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>>>> while False:
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> print("False is the new True.")
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>>>> while 6:
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> print("Which numbers are True?")
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> while -1:
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> print("Which numbers are True?")
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> while 0:
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> print("Which numbers are True?")
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> Unfortunately the author never explained these statements.
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> I was wondering if the gist of a while statement could be explained in the context of these examples.
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> e.g. while False:
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> means while True is False, which is never True because True is of course True not False.
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> but while 6:
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> means..... err while 6 is True? and this is True because... err.
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> Anyway I am a bit lost with this.
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> Can anyone shed any light please?
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> Thanks.
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