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Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat May 14 11:55:34 EDT 2011 
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:47 AM, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> So since
> [1,2,3] is one way of writing True (lets call it True3)
> and [1,2] is another (call it True2)
> then we have True3 == True2 is False
>
> But since according to Steven (according to Python?) True3 *is the
> same* as True2
> we get
>  False
> = [1,2,3] == [1,2]
> = True3  == True2
> = True == True
> = True

Okay, I see what you're doing here.

http://www.rinkworks.com/ithink/search.cgi?words=compress

When you condense a whole lot of information down to just two states,
True and False, *obviously* there'll be a huge amount that fits into
one or the other without being identical. It's not an argument for
whether [1,2,3] ought to be True or ought to be False. You could make
the exact same argument if they evaluated to False. You have proven
nothing and just wasted your time proving it.

Chris Angelico
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