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

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:06:03 +0100

From: Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>

Will people waste time on silly arguments about "thou shalt change thy code to the One True/False Style, because it is the Proper Way" vs. "but 0/1 works and it's less typing and i don't want to bother"? Will programmers expend a bunch of effort editing their code to work the new way -- effort that could have been better spent fixing and improving their programs? (Instantiate the preceding question with programmers := Python-developers and programs := Python standard library.)

Although it was not said so explicitly, my design exercise related to Jython shows that probably a lot of Jython user code will still preserve many:

jbean.beanProp = 1

where 1 would be better written as True.

regards.