[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 5 17:19:28 CET 2014


On 05/03/2014 15:19, Shai Berger wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2014 17:01:33 you wrote:
>> On 5 March 2014 13:53, Shai Berger <shai at platonix.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Again, I'm not saying the current behaviour is sensible, but I doubt
>>>> the work to fix it will benefit anyone in practice.
>>>
> [...]
>>> In any case, if we all agree that http://bugs.python.org/issue13936 is a
>>> valid problem
>>
>> We don't. Can we agree that it's not a bug and abandon this fruitless
>> discussion?
>>
>
> What, other than "bug", do you call behavior that isn't sensible?

Documented behaviour.  As opposed to insanity: doing the same thing over 
and over again and expecting different results.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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