[Python-ideas] True and False are singletons

[Rémi Lapeyre]

Le 18 mars 2019 à 12:15:05, Juancarlo Añez
(apalala at gmail.com(mailto:apalala at gmail.com)) a écrit:

> It came to my attention that:
>
> > In the original PEP True and False are said to be singletons https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0285/, but it's not in the Data Model https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html
>
> This came to my attention by code wanting to own the valid values in a dict's key:
>
> > if settings[MY_KEY] is True:
> > ...
> >
>
>
> If True and False are singletons in the spec (and not only in the CPython implementation), it should be prominent and well known.

I think it’s what "The two objects representing the values False and
True are the only Boolean objects." mean.

Rémi

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