Why does `if None.__eq__(“a”)` seem to evaluate to True (but not quite)?

Question

If you execute the following statement in Python 3.7, it will (from my testing) print b:

if None.__eq__(\"a\"):
    print(\"b\")

Answer 1

As you already figured None.__eq__("a") evaluates to NotImplemented however if you try something like

if NotImplemented:
    print("Yes")
else:
    print("No")

the result is

yes

this mean that the truth value of NotImplemented true

Therefor the outcome of the question is obvious:

None.__eq__(something) yields NotImplemented

And bool(NotImplemented) evaluates to True

So if None.__eq__("a") is always True