On 26 October 2014 01:03, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> I suspect that Guido and the core developers disagree with you, since >> they had the opportunity to fix that in Python 3 and didn't. > > That doesn't follow; there are numerous warts in Python 2 that were not > fixed in Python 3. As I understand it, the preservation of bool–int > equality has more to do with preserving backward compatibility.
Guido van Rossum answered Jul 28 '11 at 21:20, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3174392/is-it-pythonic-to-use-bools-as-ints > False==0 and True==1, and there's nothing wrong with that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
