question about True values

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Friday 27/10/2006 23:13, Steve Holden wrote:

>J. Clifford Dyer wrote:
> > the one thing that Ms. Creighton points out that I can't get past is
> > that Python, even with its bool type, *still* evaluates somethingness
> > and nothingness, and True and False are just numbers with hats on.
> >
> >  >>> True + 3
> > 4
> >  >>> bool(True-1)
> > False
> >  >>> bool(True-2)
> > True
> >  >>> (10 > 5) + (10 < 5)
> > 1
>Seems pretty clear to me that the situations you discuss above involve
>numeric coercions of a Boolean value.

A "true" Boolean value should not be coerced into any other thing. 
True+1 is as meaningless as "A"+1, or even "1"+1. The fact is, bool 
is just an integer in disguise.
I always regretted that Python just went mid-way moving onto a true 
Boolean type; I'd prefer it to stay as it was before bool was introduced.

> > Python is not evaluating the truth of the matter, but, as Ms. Creighton
> > would say, the "somethingness" of that which 10 > 5 evaluates to.  (1
> > aka True)
> >
>   >>> type(10>5)
><type 'bool'>
>   >>>

 >>> bool.__mro__
(<type 'bool'>, <type 'int'>, <type 'object'>)

>It does seem that there is a specific type associated with the result of
>a comparison, even though you would really like to to be "a number with
>a hat on".

It *is* an integer with a hat on.

 >>> isinstance(True,int)
True


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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