[Python-Dev] bool conversion wart? (original) (raw)

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 02:39:48 CET 2007


On 2/22/07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

Well consider this: >>>str (4) '4' >>>int(str (4)) 4 >>>str (False) 'False'

>>>bool(str(False)) True Doesn't this seem a bit inconsisent?

Virtually no python objects accept a stringified version of themselves in their constructor:

str({}) '{}' dict('{}') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required str([]) '[]' list('[]') ['[', ']']

Python is not Perl.

-Mike



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