Booleans (was: Conditional operator in Python?)

[Ben Wolfson]

In article <3ACDF088.88E7406A at alcyone.com>, "Erik Max Francis"
<max at alcyone.com> wrote:

> This is true.  I would be mollified if there were a builtin operator
> that tests truth in the same way that if ...: does.  It would be named
> something like bool or boolean and would return a 0 or 1 and nothing
> else:

There is a function "truth" in the operator module that does exactly
that; you could put a 'from operator import truth' in site.py, I suppose.

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