Suspicious boolean condition

Reports coroutines used in boolean contexts (if/while/ternary) without being awaited.

Using a coroutine object directly in a boolean condition will always evaluate to True, which is likely not the intended behavior. The coroutine must be awaited to get its actual boolean value.

Example:

async def check() -> bool:
    return True


async def main():
    if check():  # Always True - coroutine object is truthy
        print("hi")

Should be:

async def check() -> bool:
    return True


async def main():
    if await check():  # Correctly awaits the coroutine
        print("hi")

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PySuspiciousBooleanCondition

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PySuspiciousBooleanConditionInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PySuspiciousBooleanCondition

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2026.1, DataSpell 2026.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1, PyCharm 2026.1, Qodana for JVM 2026.1,

Last modified: 31 March 2026