[Python-Dev] ACCEPTED: PEP 285 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:05:49 -0500

> Despite the negative feedback, I've decided to accept the PEP. The > most important perceived problem is that newbies tend to write > > if x == True: ... > > where they should write > > if x: ... > > I believe this problem should be solved by education (the Zen master > hits the student on the head with a stick, and the student gets > enlightenment) rather than by holding back what I believe will be a > useful feature.

Would it not be "relatively" easy to add a compiler-time warning for most uses of this dangerous idiom?

I think this would be a job for PyChecker. Neal?

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