[Python-Dev] ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <yu99lmc4drov.fsf at europa.research.att.com>, Andrew Koenig wrote:
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> I'd like to suggest that comparisons with True are not only
> unnecessary but dangerous.

Indeed.

> Comparisons with False are much less dangerous but still
> unnecessary.

Why do you consider them less dangerous? Using "foo==False" instead of
"not foo" will be just as wrong as using "foo==True" for "foo" as a
Boolean value...

>-- Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com,
>http://www.research.att.com/info/ark

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