[Python-3000] bool in 2.6? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 29 19:10:31 CET 2007

2007/10/28, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

On 10/28/07, James Thiele <python3now at gmail.com> wrote: > PEP 361 lists bool support as being possible for 2.6 backporting. > As of today the trunk build uses nonzero like 2.5 but 3.0 alpha > uses bool. Has a decision been made on whether this will make the > cut for 2.6? > > In a more general vein, is there a cutoff date for producing a list of > 3.0 features which will be backported to 2.6?

Backporting decisions have not been made as the feature set of 3.0 is still a moving target. Once we nail down the features (I am going to guess not until b1 at the earliest) then backporting will probably start.

In this case, like many, the backport can't be an exact copy of the 3.0 code: 2.6 must support nonzero. But it should also support bool as a fallback. I think it would be great if someone submited a patch to implement this (though it isn't necessarily the highest backporting priority).

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