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Author ethan.furman
Recipients Mark.Shannon, Mohamed_Atef, ethan.furman, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, pablogsal, serhiy.storchaka, stestagg
Date 2021-01-12.16:28:22
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If an optimization changes semantics it's not an optimization.

In  `if x: pass` how do we know `x` is falsely without calling `bool()` on it?

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On a slightly different note, in the code:

    if a and b:
       ...

why is `bool(a)` called twice?
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