Comparing True False confusion

Question

I have some confusion over testing values that are assigned False, True

To check for True value, we can simply just

a = True
if (a):

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Answer 1

To check for if a value is true:

if a:
    pass

To check if a value is not true:

if not a:
    pass

However, not a: is True (and true) for values other than False, eg. None, 0, and empty containers.

If you want to check if a value is True or False (although you generally don't) try:

if a is True:
    pass

or

if a is False:
    pass

Edit: for checking if a value is True or False it seems you should use if isinstance(a, bool) and a, and if isinstance(a, bool) and not a