Steven D'Aprano a écrit : (snip) > I mean, really, does anyone *expect* True+True to give 2, or that 2**True > even works,
I may be biased since I learned C before Python and learned Python before it had a Boolean type, but I'd think that having False==0 and True==1 is not that surprising for most programmers. > without having learnt that Python bools are ints? I doubt it. > > And the old Python idiom for an if...then...else expression: > > ["something", "or other"][True] > > tends to come as a great surprise to most newbies. This idiom should slowly disappear now we have a clean syntax for such expressions. > So I would argue that > bools being ints is more surprising than the opposite would be. I suppose this mostly have to do with one's background. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
