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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-09-23 13:32:46 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-09-23 13:32:46 (GMT)
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mention how to override boolean evaluation
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@@ -1143,7 +1143,8 @@ In the context of Boolean operations, and also when expressions are used by
control flow statements, the following values are interpreted as false:
``False``, ``None``, numeric zero of all types, and empty strings and containers
(including strings, tuples, lists, dictionaries, sets and frozensets). All
-other values are interpreted as true.
+other values are interpreted as true. (See the :meth:`~object.__nonzero__`
+special method for a way to change this.)
.. index:: operator: not