[Python-ideas] Changing the meaning of bool.__invert__

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 8 02:54:33 EDT 2016


Terry Reedy wrote:
> Given that ~bool hardly make any sense currently, I would not expect it 
> to be in much use now.  Hence not much to break.

But conversely, any code that *is* using ~bool instead of
"not bool" is probably doing it precisely because it
*does* want the integer interpretation.

Why break that code, when "not bool" is available as the
obvious way of getting a logically negated bool?

-- 
Greg


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