On 3/5/2010 1:54 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Despite there are good reasons for bool to be int, the newcomer 'wtf' reaction at first glance is legitimate. Starting python from scratch, booleans would have not been a subclass of int (just guessing though), 'cause it makes no sense from a design POV.
You are just guessing. I would argue for what we have. An example of its usefulness:
>>> scores =[True, False, True, True, False] >>> score = sum(scores) >>> score 3 Bools are also usefully used as sequence indexes. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
