[Python-Dev] 3-way result of PyObject_IsTrue() considered PITA

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:01:46 -0400


> > > The docs for PyObject_IsTrue() promise that the "function 
> > > always succeeds".  But in reality it can return an error 
> > > result if an underlying method returns an error.
> > 
> > Then the docs need to be repaired!
> 
> Done.

Thanks!  But didn't you say that you had found code (in core Python)
that didn't account for failures?  Shouldn't that be fixed too?

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