True inconsistency in Python

[Terry Reedy]

"KefX" <keflimarcusx at aol.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:20031117201113.28795.00000484 at mb-m17.aol.com...
> >not. However long the expression is, I don't see how adding `==
true'
> >at the end makes it more clear.
>
> What if the expression is 37 lines long?

Given that

if <horrendous long expression

is *exactly equivalent* to

if True == <horrendous long expression

I see no reason for the latter and a big reason against it:  adding
'True==' deceptively implies that there is some difference to justify
the extra chars.  I get the feeling you actually somehow believe that
there is a difference.

Would you advocate that sums and products always start (or end) with
an analogous and explicit '0+' or '1*'?  What would you think of a
style guide that mandated code like the following:

x = (0+0j) + a + b
y = 1.0 * d * e

These have been occasionally used to force result type.  'True==' also
forces, as an alternative to bool(), but if bool() is redundant, as it
is in Python for conditional expressions, so is 'True =='.

Terry J. Reedy