[Python-Dev] Boolean type for Py3K? (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:41:46 +0100

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Yes. True and False make sense.

mx.Tools defines these as new builtins... and they correspond to the C level singletons Py_True and Py_False.

Truth constants

True = (1==1) False = (1==0)

I'm not sure whether breaking the idiom of True == 1 and False == 0 (or in other words: truth values are integers) would be such a good idea. Nothing against adding name bindings in builtins though...

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