Truthy and Falsy Values in Python

Takeaway from the freecodecamp article

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/truthy-and-falsy-values-in-python/

Falsy Values include:

• Sequences & Collections: Empty lists, dictionaries, tuples, sets, strings, range(0)

• Numbers: Zero of any numeric types including integer (0), float (0.0), complex(0Abc)

• Constants: none, False

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Truthy Values Include:

non-zero numeric values, non-empty sequences and collections, True

Python built-in function: bool() function to check whether a value is truthy or falsy

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Benefits:

• More Concise code with IF or WHILE loop

• Make custom objects truthy and falsy values by adding the special method __bool__( )

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