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

[Rob Cliffe]

On 06/03/2014 02:15, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Donald Stufft]
>> When the documented behavior is both nonsensical and the cause of hard
>> to debug bugs that is a pretty compelling use case to me, unless you actively
>> enjoy being user hostile.
> Breaking code that currently works is as hostile as hostile gets.
> Where is the evidence that no code relies on the current behavior?
> For that matter, where is the evidence that the current behavior is a
> significant cause of bugs?  I know I've used "if some_time_object:",
> but it did exactly what I expected it to do.
Well, let's start a survey.  So far we have:

Instances of existing code that would be broken by the change: 0
Instances of code where the unexpected behaviour caused a bug: 1 (the 
OP's code).

I invite everyone to add instances that they know about.:-)

Rob Cliffe
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