Issue 13494: 'cast' any value to a Boolean? (original) (raw)

Issue13494

Created on 2011-11-28 14:01 by mark.dickinson, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg148480 - (view)	Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) *	Date: 2011-11-28 14:01
Docs nit: at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-values we have """ The built-in function bool() can be used to cast any value to a Boolean ... """ It's a little unusual to talk about casting in Python. Any objections to replacing 'cast' with 'convert'?
msg148481 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2011-11-28 14:02
+1
msg148489 - (view)	Author: Meador Inge (meador.inge) *	Date: 2011-11-28 15:32
+1
msg148537 - (view)	Author: Eli Bendersky (eli.bendersky) *	Date: 2011-11-29 02:43
'bool' is just one of many conversion functions that convert their argument to the type they designate. Does this doc problem only exist for 'bool' or also for 'int', 'float' and others?
msg148767 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2011-12-02 17:49
New changeset 2f9c986b46cd by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #13494: s/cast/convert/. Also add a link. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2f9c986b46cd New changeset 69369fd3514b by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #13494: s/cast/convert/. Also add a link. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/69369fd3514b New changeset 454b97887c5a by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default': #13494: merge with 3.2. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/454b97887c5a
msg148768 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2011-12-02 17:50
Fixed! @Eli At least in the doc, I haven't seen any other suspicious use of 'cast'.