integer >= 1 == True and integer.0 == False is bad, bad, bad!!!

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 14:19:28 EDT 2010


On Jul 11, 6:38 am, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems kinda dumb to build a tuple just so a conditional wont blow
> chunks! This integer bool-ing need to be fixed right away!

Okay.  What fix do you propose?  Would your fix maintain the identity
"0 == False"? For bonus points, explain how you'd deal with any
backwards compatibility problems that your fix introduces.

Have you considered forking Python?  That may be the way forward here.

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Mark



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