If statement with no logical operators in python

Question

I have the following python code:

value = 1.9

if value:
    #do something
else:
    #do something else

What happens here? I can\'t underst

Answer 1

Any object can be tested for truth value, for use in an if or while condition or as operand of the Boolean operations below. The following values are considered false:

• None
• False
• zero of any numeric type, for example, 0, 0L, 0.0, 0j.
• any empty sequence, for example, '', (), [].
• any empty mapping, for example, {}.
• instances of user-defined classes, if the class defines a nonzero() or len() method, when that method returns the integer zero or bool value False

https://docs.python.org/2.4/lib/truth.html

So since value isn't one of those things, it takes the if, not the else!