The previous post on falsiness (which should be “falseness”, but will continue with the ‘i’ since “Truthiness” is the conceptual term instead of “Truthfulness) has me thinking and steam’s coming out of the engine. I wanted to see for myself these different flavors of False in action, as well as variants of Truthiness.

See the results for yourself running this code in a Python IDE. Experimenting with this made me discover {} is part of the falsiness group, too.

# Values for test: False, 0, None, [], {}

test = []

if test:
    print("True. Condition passed. If statement succeeded.")
else: print("False. Condition did not pass. If statement failed.")
>>> False. Condition did not pass. If statement failed.

test = [1]

if test:
    print("True. Condition passed. If statement succeeded.")
else: print("False. Condition did not pass. If statement failed.")
>>> True. Condition passed. If statement succeeded.