filipw

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Net.Http.Formatting;
using MsgPack.Serialization;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Net;

jfarmer

true and false vs. "truthy" and "falsey" (or "falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Many programming languages, including Ruby, have native boolean (true and false) data types. In Ruby they're called true and false. In Python, for example, they're written as True and False. But oftentimes we want to use a non-boolean value (integers, strings, arrays, etc.) in a boolean context (if statement, &&, ||, etc.).

This outlines how this works in Ruby, with some basic examples from Python and JavaScript, too. The idea is much more general than any of these specific languages, though. It's really a question of how the people designing a programming language wants booleans and conditionals to work.

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srinivasmohan

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'hipchat-api'
require 'getopt/long'
require 'socket'
require 'erb'
 
#Do not modify these constants! (after you set these up, of course)
HipApiKey='ABCDEFGHKJHKJHKJHKJH'
Room='Nagios'

kennethreitz

1   import urllib2
2   import json

221 def basic_authorization(user, password):
222     s = user + ":" + password
223     return "Basic " + s.encode("base64").rstrip()
224 
225 def submit_pull_request(user, repo):
226     auth = (settings.username, settings.password)
227     url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/' + user + '/' + repo + '/pulls'