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Python Python Basics (2015) Logic in Python Booleans

Katie Dodd
Katie Dodd
13,798 Points
Posted by Katie Dodd
Katie Dodd
13,798 Points

Challenge question

This challenge seems straightforward. I believe I'm doing this correctly but I keep getting the 'bummer!', saying my 'wrong' variable isn't 'falsey'. Am I missing something?

booleans.py 
right = "truthy"
wrong = "falsey"

2 Answers

John Lindsey
John Lindsey
15,641 Points
John Lindsey
John Lindsey
15,641 Points

Truthy means that the variable has certain values. This could be any number that is not 0 (0 is falsey), any string literal, a list, dict, True, etc.. Common falsey values include False, 0, None. So for this you would need to do:

right = 1
wrong = 0

This would also work:

right = True
wrong = False

right = 'hello'
wrong = None

I hope this helps! (: