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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It does! it takes a list (or other iterator) and filters out all values that are cast to boolean True. The same could be archived with

results = list(filter(bool, results))
[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It would filter out values that cast to False, no?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Like None, 0, "", ...

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

i wasn't sure how to phrase it, it keeps all values that cast to True, and discards all that cast to False