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

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:01:36 +0100

From: M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>

+1 on making bool an abstract subtype of integers and having PyTrue and PyFalse as only instances -1 on overriding interfaces other than informational ones such as repr

So you mean just:

class truth(int): # other names?, should not be subclassable def new(cls,val): # ?? if val: return true else: return false def repr(self): if self: return 'true' else: return 'false'

true = int.new(truth,1) # also Py_True false = int.new(truth,0) # also Py_False