No object should ever be False

The representation of Tree as a sequence causes boolean coercion to
consider the empty tree to be False, which is nonsensical.

Override __nonzero__ for all object types to return True.

This fixes libgit2#432.

src/object.c

@@ -184,6 +184,15 @@ Object_peel(Object *self, PyObject *py_type)
     return wrap_object(peeled, self->repo);
 }
 
+PyDoc_STRVAR(Object___nonzero____doc__,
+    "Boolean coercion, an object is always True");
+
+PyObject *
+Object___nonzero__(Object *self)
+{
+    Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+}
+
 PyGetSetDef Object_getseters[] = {
     GETTER(Object, oid),
     GETTER(Object, id),
@@ -200,6 +209,21 @@ PyMethodDef Object_methods[] = {
 };
 
 
+static PyNumberMethods NumberMethods = {
+    0, /* nb_add */
+    0, /* nb_subtract */
+    0, /* nb_multiply */
+    0, /*nb_divide */
+    0, /* nb_remainder */
+    0, /* nb_divmod */
+    0, /* nb_power */
+    0, /* nb_negative */
+    0, /* nb_positive */
+    0, /* nb_absolute */
+    Object___nonzero__, /* nb_nonzero */
+    /* There are a lot more, we we don't need any of them */
+};
+
 PyDoc_STRVAR(Object__doc__, "Base class for Git objects.");
 
 PyTypeObject ObjectType = {
@@ -213,7 +237,7 @@ PyTypeObject ObjectType = {
     0,                                         /* tp_setattr        */
     0,                                         /* tp_compare        */
     0,                                         /* tp_repr           */
-    0,                                         /* tp_as_number      */
+    &NumberMethods,                            /* tp_as_number      */
     0,                                         /* tp_as_sequence    */
     0,                                         /* tp_as_mapping     */
     0,                                         /* tp_hash           */

test/test_object.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 import unittest
 
 import pygit2
-from pygit2 import GIT_OBJ_TREE, GIT_OBJ_TAG, Tree, Tag
+from pygit2 import GIT_OBJ_TREE, GIT_OBJ_TAG, GIT_OBJ_BLOB, Tree, Tag
 from . import utils
 
 
@@ -78,5 +78,12 @@ def test_invalid_type(self):
 
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, commit.peel, Tag)
 
+    def test_nonzero(self):
+        empty_tree_id = self.repo.TreeBuilder().write()
+        self.assertTrue(self.repo[empty_tree_id])
+
+        empty_blob_id = self.repo.write(GIT_OBJ_BLOB, '')
+        self.assertTrue(self.repo[empty_tree_id])
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()