Help with understanding the following code

[ClimbAddict]

Hi everyone,

I am doing the Dataquest course and can’t really understand the following code. The following code is supposed to do capitalize every word and replace the gender with the string “Gender Unknown”

I don’t understand why the if not Gender will return True when the gender is empty. Can someone please explain to me

for row in moma:
    Gender = row[2]
    Gender = Gender.title()
    if not Gender:
        Gender = “Gender Unknown”

[perfringo]

Read following documentation: Truth value testing

[ndc85430]

Because empty collections are treated as False. See the docs.

[ClimbAddict]

Thanks for the quick response