Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:37:38 -0700, Rob Wolfe wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >
> >> From a purely functional perspective, bools are unnecessary in Python. I
> >> think of True and False as syntactic sugar. But they shouldn't be
> >> syntactic sugar for 1 and 0 any more than they should be syntactic sugar
> >> for {"x": "foo"} and {}.
> >
> > But `bools` are usefull in some contexts. Consider this:
> >
> >>>> 1 == 1
> > True
> >>>> cmp(1, 1)
> > 0
> >>>> 1 == 2
> > False
> >>>> cmp(1, 2)
> > -1
> >
> > At first look you can see that `cmp` does not return boolean value
> > what not for all newbies is so obvious.
>
> Sorry I fail to see your point!? What has ``==`` to do with `cmp()` here?
> The return of `cmp()` is an integer that cannot and should not be seen as
> boolean value.
Before `bool` appeared it looked like this:
>>> 1 == 1
1
>>> cmp(2, 1)
1
Wich result is boolean value?
Rob
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