[Python-ideas] Add __nonzero__ to threading.Event
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 11 06:56:05 CEST 2009
Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering why threading.Event hasn't got the __nonzero__ special
> attribute? I think it would allow for code to be more pythonic if you
> could just do "if e: ..." instead of "if e.isSet(): ..."
> (or "if e.is_set(): ..." in 2.6+).
2.6 and 3.1 are feature frozen.
I think the proposal should be to add __bool__ to 3.2 and maybe backport
to 2.7 as __nonzero__. It is possible that 3.2 will get new features
not added to 2.7, but I doubt the opposite.
> The patch is trivial:
>
> Index: Lib/threading.py
> ===================================================================
> --- Lib/threading.py (revision 72551)
> +++ Lib/threading.py (working copy)
> @@ -371,6 +371,9 @@
>
> is_set = isSet
>
> + def __nonzero__(self):
> + return self.__flag
> +
> def set(self):
> self.__cond.acquire()
> try:
>
>
> Is it worth submitting this to the tracker or is there some reason why
> this is a bad idea that I've missed?
Since you have a patch that people could grab and apply, and not just an
idea, I say submit too.
tjr
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