On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > And I think that partly this is simply historical. Before a proper > boolean type was added to Python, 1 and 0 were the norm for storing > truth values. Changing the truth value of 0 when bools were > introduced would have broken tons of existing code. This is also the > reason why bool is a subclass of int.
Another thought related to that list bit: if bool(0) were True, then bool(int(False)) would also be True. That seems messed up. Then again, bool(str(False)) is already True. Does that bother anybody other than me? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
