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

[Paul Prescod]

"Gerald S. Williams" wrote:
> 
> Please don't take this as a real endorsement, and YMMV to
> be sure, but somehow this seems right to me given the way
> Python currently determines "truth":
> 
> >>> 1 == True, 2 == True, [] == False
> (True, True, True)

I'm confident that will never be the case.

if x:
  ...

should be considered a shortcut syntax for

if bool(x):
   ...

That says nothing about the equality of the object x and one of the two
truth constants. 

 Paul Prescod