Re: Python transformer for Guile?

[Lalo Martins <lalo at webcom dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:35:00AM +1100, Telford Tendys wrote:
> 
> By the way, Python seems like a pretty rocking little language, I really
> like the way it does its objects but sadly it has no equivalent to #f
> and instead makes 0 the only false object.

Ooops. Incorrect.

The ``quintessential'' false object is None (equivalent to #f
in scheme or nil in lisp).

Even then these aren't the ``only'' false values; all of these
are false:

None
0
'' (empty string)
() (empty tuple)
[] (empty list)
{} (empty dictionary)

[]s,
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