From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:32:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mention how to override boolean evaluation
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mention how to override boolean evaluation
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index 1566a99a23a3..e5e40cf0a084 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1143,7 +1143,8 @@ In the context of Boolean operations, and also when expressions are used by
 control flow statements, the following values are interpreted as false:
 ``False``, ``None``, numeric zero of all types, and empty strings and containers
 (including strings, tuples, lists, dictionaries, sets and frozensets).  All
-other values are interpreted as true.
+other values are interpreted as true.  (See the :meth:`~object.__nonzero__`
+special method for a way to change this.)
 
 .. index:: operator: not