Steven D'Aprano <steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au> writes: > Why is it misleading? Is there some circumstance in Python where the > literal 1 could have a false value?
It's misleading as to the intent. > "while 1" was the accepted idiom for infinite loops in Python for many > years, before the introduction of bools in (I think) Python 2.2. […] Right. Now that we have boolean literals, they're semantically clearer when the semantic value one is testing is boolean, not integer. -- \ “Nothing is more sacred than the facts.” —Sam Harris, _The End | `\ of Faith_, 2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
