If “x”:

Question

If I make a piece of code that goes

If “x”:
print(“I’m a penguin”)

And I run the code, the message is printed

Why?
What does if “x”: actually mean? I haven’t given x any value, so what about this undefined x causes the print function to work?

Answer 1

Didn't work when I tested it in Playground. Error "Invalid character ..."

(Edit)
Apparently the problem lied in the print function call. You are using a slanted double quote for the string "I'm a penguin". It works as I changed that to regular double quote character.

Apparently "x" here is a string, Python considers it as boolean True because it is not an empty string.