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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:07:23 +0200

Stuart Bishop wrote:

No - I was benchmarking with the patch posted on Sourceforge (before PEP285 was checked into CVS), patched into a CVS snapshot taken at the same time. =20 Casting to bool using (x and True) or (x or False) : 1.61 Casting to bool using (bool) : 2.68 Flow control on explicit True : 1.42 Flow control on explicit 1 : 0.99 Flow control on variable bound to True : 1.02 Flow control on variable bound to 1 : 0.99

time to make keywords out of True, False (and None)?