On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Actually, no. Is True less than False, or is it greater? In boolean > algebra, the question has no answer. It is only an implementation detail > of Python that chooses False < True.
Maybe in boolean algebra, but in code, it's handy to have sortable bools. In SQL, for instance, I can use a boolean in an ORDER BY, perhaps followed by another criterion, and it's effectively sorting by "1 if some_boolean else 0" or in C notation "some_boolean ? 0 : 1" ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
