Data Types
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Wed Sep 21 21:40:56 EDT 2016
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:25 pm, BartC wrote:
> On 21/09/2016 05:03, Cai Gengyang wrote:
>
>> Are there any other data types that will give you type(A) or type(B) =
>> <class 'bool'> besides True and False?
>
> No types but any variable or expression containing True or False will be
> a bool type (or class bool):
"Containing" True or False? Certainly not:
py> type( [1, 2, True] )
<class 'list'>
py> type( False or 99 )
<class 'int'>
Based on your examples, I think you mean any expression *evaluating to* True
or False will be a bool. Um, yeah, of course it will. Because it evaluates
to one of the only two bool values, True or False.
> A = 10<20
> print (type(A)) => <class 'bool'>
That's because the value of A is True.
> print (10<20) => True
> print (type(10<20)) => <class 'bool'>
10<20 shouldn't be thought of as some alternative value which is a bool, any
more than we should think of 1+1 as being a different value to 2.
--
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.
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