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

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:06:20 -0800

"Gerald S. Williams" wrote:

Please don't take this as a real endorsement, and YMMV to be sure, but somehow this seems right to me given the way Python currently determines "truth": >>> 1 == True, 2 == True, [] == False (True, True, True)

I'm confident that will never be the case.

if x: ...

should be considered a shortcut syntax for

if bool(x): ...

That says nothing about the equality of the object x and one of the two truth constants.

Paul Prescod