Comment by James_K

Isn't this just a Perl feature (arrays are also their length and zero values are falsy)? I can't help but feel Python is getting closer to Perl as time goes on. Ironic, since their original goal was to be simple and make themselves distinct from Perl. What was the saying again? "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Honestly, I think it was all this "Zen" stuff that lead Python down the path to weirdness. This article reads like a monk interpreting sacred text. I can think of no good reason for all this malarkey.