Feb. 26, 2003
4:22 p.m.
Paul> Would it be simpler to institute a special rule that True = 1 is Paul> silently ignored, but True = anything else generates an error Paul> message? Or am I overlooking something important? For code that wants to cleanly cross the boundary between Python with no boolean type and Python with a boolean type, you sometimes see True = 1==1 False = 1==0 You get True and False if it didn't exist before and have the added benefit that if it does exist, it gets found in globals() or locals() instead of in __builtins__ and has the right type. Skip