Isn't bool __invert__ behaviour "strange"?

[John Roth]

Saizan wrote:
> Why subclassing bool from int either __invert__ or __neg__ haven't been
> overrided to produce a boolean negation? I suspect backwards
> compatibility or something alike, but I still wonder..
>
> And since bool can't be subclassed, to have a type like bool but with
> boolean negation what do you suggest? A wrapper maybe?
>
>
> (I would use it so I can evaluate user-defined boolean expression
> creating istances of his/her variables in my namespace and than eval()
> his/her expression)

The not operator and the bool() builtin produce
boolean results. Since bool is a subclass of int,
all the integer operations will remain integer
operations. This was done for backwards
compatability, and is unlikely to change in the 2.x
series.

I don't remember if this is supposed to change
in 3.0. See PEP 3100 and 3099.

John Roth

John Roth