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[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

In JS at least, there's a concept of truthiness and falsiness. 0, undefined, null, and a few other non-boolean values are treated as false if used in conditionals and logical operations, while every other value is treated as true. I'm pretty sure python has something similar.

[-] Hammerheart@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It does. Empty collections, 0, None

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