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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:57:22 -0500

Do you propose to change the type of "x == y" et. al. from int --> bool? Sounds good to me.

Yes.

In general, I can change my doctests to use assert rather than looking for 1 or 0.

Hm, assert is the wrong thing though, since it's optimized away in -O mode. You may have to create your own function "check(x)" that does nothing on true but raises an exception on false, or prints "Yes" or "No", or something like that.

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