ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[Andrew Koenig]

djw> Pardon my ignorance (I've only been working with Python for a short
djw> while), but I don't understand why an idiom like:

djw> if x == True:

djw> would be/should be an error (or warning initially). I see C/C++ code
djw> like this all the time:

djw> bool x;
djw> x = Foo(Bar);
djw> if (x==true)
djw> {...

In C++, you've fixed the type of x when you wrote "bool x;",
so x can be only true of false.

The nearest equivalent in Python would be

        if bool(x) == True:

which has no particular problems aside from being needlessly verbose.

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