From 426c55e3e00aa6f88e7cd53fbc690b34193c1bbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Burns <33505528+JacksonBurns@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:37:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] collider is never None - must change test (See ext)

passing an empty dict for third_body results in the attribute being None, but we need it to just be an unpopulated ThirdBody to indicate that the Reaction is a third body reaction
---
 rmgpy/reaction.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rmgpy/reaction.py b/rmgpy/reaction.py
index ec742be959..cffc774b4c 100644
--- a/rmgpy/reaction.py
+++ b/rmgpy/reaction.py
@@ -348,13 +348,13 @@ def to_cantera(self, species_list=None, use_chemkin_identifier=False):
 
         elif isinstance(self.kinetics, ThirdBody):
             # Cantera 3 doesn't have a ThirdBody class, only third body attribute in the normal class
-            if ct_collider is not None:
+            if ct_collider:
                 ct_reaction = ct.Reaction(reactants=ct_reactants, products=ct_products, third_body=ct_collider, rate=ct.ArrheniusRate())
             else:  # provide the default collider (if we don't have one) to establish this as a ThirdBody reaction
                 ct_reaction = ct.Reaction(reactants=ct_reactants, products=ct_products, third_body=ct.ThirdBody(), rate=ct.ArrheniusRate())
 
         elif isinstance(self.kinetics, Troe):
-            if ct_collider is not None:
+            if ct_collider:
                 ct_reaction = ct.Reaction(
                     reactants=ct_reactants,
                     products=ct_products,
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def to_cantera(self, species_list=None, use_chemkin_identifier=False):
                 )
 
         elif isinstance(self.kinetics, Lindemann):
-            if ct_collider is not None:
+            if ct_collider:
                 ct_reaction = ct.Reaction(
                     reactants=ct_reactants,
                     products=ct_products,