Some "truthy" crept in

[pochmann]

BPO	45346
Nosy	@rhettinger, @pochmann, @pablogsal, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-45346 Keep docs consistent regarding true and false values #28697 [3.10] bpo-45346: Keep docs consistent regarding true and false values (GH-28697) #28698

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Linked PRs

• gh-89509: Fix "truthy"/"falsy" in documentation #158663

[pochmann]

Python consistently says true/false, not truthy/falsy. But a few "truthy" have crept in now:

https://github.com/python/cpython/search?q=truthy

• Two in Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
• One in Doc/library/ast.rst
• One in Lib/test/test_builtin.py

Evidence for consistent true/false usage, if needed:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-testing
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-operations-and-or-not
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-if-statement
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-while-statement
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#boolean-operations