[Python-Dev] bool conversion wart?
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 23 11:52:51 CET 2007
Neal Becker wrote:
> The fact that other numeric
> types act this way leaves a reasonable expectation that bool will.
But bool isn't really a numeric type in the same way
that the others are. It's only a subtype of int for
historical reasons. If it had been a part of Python
from the beginning, it probably would have been a
separate type altogether.
Hmmm... is that something that should be revisited
in 3.0?
--
Greg
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