Empty strings "" and zero 0 are treated as False in python

>>> any ([0, 0])
False
>>> any ([1, 0])
True
>>> any ([None, 0, ""])
False
>>> bool(0)
False
>>> bool("")
False
>>> bool(1)
True

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