[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] style question

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, "Michael P. Reilly" <arcege@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> However, it is still a "bad idea" to add boolean values.

However, a%2 isn't a boolean just because it's either 0 or 1. It's the
remainder if a is divided by 2. And the sum of those remainders is
obviously the number of nubmers that were odd.

> A true integer
> is anything that is not zero.  Conceivably, this could be -1;  I could
> easily create a __eq__ method (in Py2.1 and later) that returns -1 or
> 1e10 or even "true".

Yes. But the truth value was never tested, and isn't relevant. This is a
good kneejerk reaction in many cases, but not here :-)

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Remco Gerlich