[New-bugs-announce] [issue5998] Add __bool__ to threading.Event and multiprocessing.Event

[Floris Bruynooghe]

New submission from Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com>:

I think it would allow for more pythonic code if the threading.Event and
multiprocessing.Event classes had the __bool__ special attribute.  This
would allow doing "if e: ..." instead of "if e.is_set(): ...".

This could be backported to 2.x really easily by just replacing __bool__
to __nonzero__.

See also the thread starting here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/004617.html

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components: Library (Lib)
files: event.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 87587
nosy: flub
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add __bool__ to threading.Event and multiprocessing.Event
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13959/event.diff

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