[Python-ideas] bool(datetime.time(0, 0))

[Nick Coghlan]

The problem is not using boolean evaluation - it's assuming that boolean
evaluation is defined as "x is not None". Doing so introduces a completely
unnecessary dependency on the type of "x". I'm frankly astonished that so
many people seem to think it's a reasonable thing to do.

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On May 8, 2012 8:01 PM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:02:04 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > IMO, you've completely misdiagnosed the source of that bug. Never
> > *ever* rely on boolean evaluation when testing against None.
>
> Nick, that's just plain silly. If we didn't want people to rely on
> boolean evaluation, we wouldn't define __bool__ at all (or we would
> make it return a random value).
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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