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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:08:03 +0200

mark wrote:

Hmm, I'm not sure I follow. =20 This is Python without the PEP: =20 falseValues =3D [{}, [], 0, None] for x in falseValues: if not x: print "%s is 'false'." % x =20 This is Python with the PEP: =20 falseValues =3D [{}, [], 0, None, False] for x in falseValues: if not x: print "%s is 'false'." % x =20 I don't see this vast conceptual chasm between pre and post PEP that = you appear to see. Please help me understand.

can you explain how your second example covers everything that's in the PEP?

can you explain why the second version is "better", in any sense of that word?