"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:ehoqhe$6iq$3 at sea.gmane.org...
>> the string class's "nil" value. Each of the builtin types has such an
>> "empty" or "nil" value:
>>>> string ""
>> list []
>> tuple ()
>> dict {}
>> int 0
>> float 0.0
>> complex 0j
>> set set()
>>>> Any other value besides the above will compare as "not false".
>>>> And today's question for the novices is: which Python type did Skip miss
> from the above list?
more that one:
0L
decimal.Decimal(0) # is decimal.Decimal('0'), also
u''
array.array('c') # or any other typecode, I suspect, without initializer
Terry Jan Reedy
