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

[Greg Ewing]

> there's currently lots of code out there
> that was recently modified to read
> 
>   try:
>     True
>   except NameError:
>     True = 1
>     False = 0

Maybe assignment to them could be allowed provided the
value being assigned is == to their official value?

(The actual assignment needn't be done, just suppression
of any exception.)

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