What's the logical value of "string" in Python? [duplicate]

Question

I erroneously wrote this code in Python:

name = input("what is your name?")
if name == "Kamran" or "Samaneh":
    print("That is a nice name")
else:
    print("You have a boring name ;)")

It always prints out "That is a nice name" even when the input is neither "Kamran" nor "Samaneh".

Am I correct in saying that it considers "Samaneh" as a true? Why?

By the way, I already noticed my mistake. The correct form is:

if name == "Kamran" or name == "Samaneh":

Answer 1

Any non empty string in Python (and most other languages) is true as are all non-zero numbers and non-empty lists, dictionaries, sets and tuples.¹

A nicer way to do what you want is:

name = input("what is your name?")
if name in ("Kamran", "Samaneh"):
    print("That is a nice name")
else:
    print("You have a boring name ;)")

This creates a tuple containing the names that you want and performs a membership test.

^{1 As delnan points out in the comments, this applies to all well written collections. That is, if you implement a custom collection class, make sure that it is false when it's empty.}