[Python-ideas] Programming recommendations (PEP 8) and boolean values
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Aug 9 09:15:15 CEST 2012
Le 08/08/2012 16:28, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> I'd be strongly against changing that rule. If you don't want other
> types than bool, use an isinstance check. Code using "is True" is most
> likely a bug. (It's different for None, since that has no second value
> that is assumed.)
That said, I'm also curious about the answer to Michael's following
question:
“why does it say that using an identity check is worse than an equality
check?”
Regards
Antoine.
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