[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:37:02 -0500

Right, but my point is that if you want to make booleans first class objects in Python, you should consider making them behave as defined in the text books rather than trying to make them feel like integers but look like truth values.

I reject this reasoning. Python is not trying to follow the text books. (In fact, maybe I should say "Python is trying not to follow the text books.")

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)