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

[Guido van Rossum]

DeprecationWarning every time you use ~ on a bool? That would still be
too big a burden on using it the new way.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 11:00, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> The thing here is, this change is too small to warrant a __future__
>> import. So we're either going to introduce it in 3.6 and tell people
>> about it in case their code might break, or we're never going to do
>> it.  I'm honestly on the fence, but I feel this is a rarely used
>> operator so changing its meaning is not likely to break a lot of code.
>
> What about just having a DeprecationWarning, but no __future__ import?
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