Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Apr 17 20:36:22 EDT 2011


Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev at gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, as I was curious myself, I've checked sources and found that
> `True if x else False` will _not_ call bool(), it calls
> PyObject_IsTrue() pretty much directly.

Sure. By ‘bool(x)’ I'm referring only to the implementation inside that
constructor.

> So technically these implementations are equivalent besides the fact
> that bool() is type rather than function.

What is confusing me is why on Earth this matters to the OP.

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