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Author Mark.Shannon
Recipients Mark.Shannon, Mohamed_Atef, ethan.furman, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, pablogsal, serhiy.storchaka, stestagg
Date 2021-01-12.16:39:25
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> How do we know `x` is falsey without calling `bool()` on it?

We don't, but in `if x: pass`, it doesn't matter.
Discounting side-effects in __bool__, the code does nothing regardless of the value of `x`.
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