[Python-ideas] Break the dominance of boolean values in boolean context

[Devin Jeanpierre]

> Would that return 'a' or 'b', or something else?

Usually it'd return True or False. Same with things like `foo in bar`.
I just mean that we can extend these to return other objects without
insisting that builtin types (floats, sets, etc.) do weird things with
them.

Devin

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 21:40 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>> Can we not allow things like `a < b` to return non-boolean values,
>> without altering the behaviour of existing Python types?
>
> Would that return 'a' or 'b', or something else?
>
>
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