True == 1 weirdness
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Wed Sep 16 13:33:24 EDT 2015
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:40 am, Random832 wrote:
> "in" suggests a relationship between objects of different types (X and
> "something that can contain X") - all the other comparison operators are
> meant to work on objects of the same or similar types.
`is` and the equality operators are intended to work on arbitrary objects,
as are their inverses `is not` and inequality.
And with operator overloading, < <= > and => could have any meaning you
like:
graph = a => b => c <= d <= e
> Why not make isinstance a comparison operator and have "1 instanceof int
> instanceof type"? Having chaining apply to things that are not
> semantically comparisons is just baffling.
Somewhat ugly, I grant you, but if baffling?
--
Steven
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