[Python-Dev] Boolean transition (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:17:51 -0500

[Greg Ewing]

We certainly don't need '&&' and '||' -- we already have them, they're called 'and' and 'or'.

They're not the same to David: C && and || return 0 or 1, not sometimes their LHS or RHS argument.

But if booleans are to become a separate type eventually, I think that '&' and '|' should perform the standard (non-shortcircuiting) boolean algebra operations on them.

In fact, that could be added now to the reference implementation in the PEP -- I don't think it would introduce any extra breakage.

That's already in the reference implementation, along with xor too.