Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 10:45:47 EDT 2014

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of academic interest, is there somewhere in the Python docs where the following is explained?

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#booleans

>>>> 3 == True
> False
>>>> if 3:
>         print("It's Twue")
>
> It's Twue
>
> i.e. in the if statement 3 is True but not in the first

No, 3 is merely true, not True.  True is just the name of a particular
singleton object that is also true.

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