[Python-Dev] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

[Jim Jewett]

Greg,

If you do update this PEP, please update the __not__ portion as well,
at least regarding possible return values.

It currently says that __not__ can return NotImplemented, which falls
back to the current semantics.   (Why?  to override an explicit
__not__?  Then why not just put the current semantics on __object__,
and override by calling that directly?)

It does not yet say what will happen for objects that return something
else outside of {True, False}, such as

    class AntiBool(object):
        def __not__(self):  return self

Is that OK, because "not not X" should now be spelled "bool(x)", and
you haven't allowed the overriding of __bool__?  (And, if so, how does
that work Py3K?)

-jJ