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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:35:11 -0500

> How will bool influence 'nonzero'? Currently, Python insists that > 'nonzero should return an int'. Will this be changed to 'should > return a bool'?

I hope so.

Actually, it doesn't matter. This is only called by C code that must then return a C 0 or 1, and this code is entirely oblivious to the difference between int and bool.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)