[Python-Dev] Code Generation Idea Was: Bytecode idea

[Guido van Rossum]

> None is moving slowly toward becoming a true constant.  Perhaps the same
> should be true of True and False.

Problem with this is that there's currently lots of code out there
that was recently modified to read

  try:
    True
  except NameError:
    True = 1
    False = 0

That would become a syntax error if True/False were true constants. :-(

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