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Sourcery refactoring id: simplify-boolean-comparison

Section titled “Sourcery refactoring id: simplify-boolean-comparison”

Description:

Section titled “Description:”

Removes unnecessarily verbose boolean comparisons

Before:

Section titled “Before:”
need_hat = not is_raining
if need_hat == True:
    put_on_hat()

After:

Section titled “After:”
need_hat = not is_raining
if need_hat:
    put_on_hat()

Explanation:

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It is unnecessary to compare boolean values to True or False in the test of an if condition. Removing these unnecessary checks makes the code slightly shorter and easier to parse.