[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Guido van Rossum]

> Do you propose to change the type of "x == y" et. al. from int --> bool?
> Sounds good to me.

Yes.

> In general, I can change my doctests to use assert rather than looking
> for 1 or 0.

Hm, assert is the wrong thing though, since it's optimized away in -O
mode.  You may have to create your own function "check(x)" that does
nothing on true but raises an exception on false, or prints "Yes" or
"No", or something like that.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)