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

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:27:49 +0100

From: Samuele Pedroni <pedroni@inf.ethz.ch>

But as long as in Python 3000: if 0: ... and if 1: ... work then someone can still hang himself calling it so: foo(0,10) Maybe it is just FUD, but the question whether people will adopt the change and apply it to old code is central. That means it should be asked, then you can answer FUD, but just then.

That means - restated - that the only way to take seriously and to make Paul Prescod's point effective is to deprecate:

if : ... etc

Already issuing warnings with 2.3, because - here - the sooner the better , or keep things more or less as they are (Guido proposals).

Obviously we will still be able to use lists/strings etc in Boolean context but not numbers just bools.

regards.