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

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:30:11 +0100

From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>

Catching errors is also a benefit of separating any two types.

Yes, but my implicit point was that if you're serious about this you should find some way beyond good-will, to enforce the change from 0/1 to True/False in all new and old code.

Otherwise your benefit is negligible or you should use a lot of bool() to avoid the progation of the evil 0/1 that are flags and could mix with integers that are integers.

From my observatory I don't see the danger of the evil propagation, just the 0/1/True/False confusion, but I already left that issue to Guido's taste.

regards.