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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 29 19:50:50 CET 2007

2007/10/29, James Thiele <python3now at gmail.com>:

So just to clarify: 2.5 nonzero only 2.6 nonzero first, then bool (if patch submitted) 3.x bool first, then nonzero

Is this correct?

No. 3.x tests bool only.

On 10/29/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > 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). > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) >

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