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isn't a boolean result in any of these languages, so I feel like it would always output "odd"Edit: 0 is false, everything else is true.
In JS at least, there's a concept of truthiness and falsiness.
0
,undefined
,null
, and a few other non-boolean values are treated asfalse
if used in conditionals and logical operations, while every other value is treated astrue
. I'm pretty sure python has something similar.It does. Empty collections, 0, None