[C++-sig] strange behavior with respect to numeric and Booleanoverloads

[Matthew Scouten (TT)]

isinstance( True, int ) returns True

However, the code 

 def foo( arg ):
     if isinstance( arg, bool ):
          _foo_bool( arg )
     else:
          _foo_other( arg )

Would work in theory. 

I could do this. I'm just annoyed that BP is not doing it for me. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cplusplus-sig-bounces+matthew.scouten=tradingtechnologies.com at py
thon.org] On Behalf Of Hans Meine
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:03 AM
To: Development of Python/C++ integration
Subject: Re: [C++-sig] strange behavior with respect to numeric and
Booleanoverloads

On Monday 16 March 2009 22:52:16 Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> [...] Boost.Python 2 was written when the Python bool type still
really
> was an int (Python 2.2). [...]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 06:40:14 Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> Python code:
>
> def foo( arg ):
>     if isinstance( arg, int ):
>          _foo_int( arg )
>     else:
>          _foo_bool( arg )

Now I am confused.  Both of the above read as if a boolean was no longer
an 
int, but I interpret "is a" and "isinstance" as checking for types
inherited 
from, too?!  While Ralf could have meant (True is 1) with his "really",
the 
above code should first test whether isinstance( arg, bool ), no?

Or did this change with 2.6/3?

Greetings,
  Hans
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