Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> (Flipping the booleans makes no sense to me. When would 0 mean true > >> and 1 mean false? […]) > > > > The Unix commands ‘true’ and ‘false’ follow that convention > > <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_and_false_%28commands%29>. > > Yes, but my point is: You shouldn't need to rebind those names (or > have names "true" and "false" for 0 and 1).
That's not what you asked, though. You asked “When would 0 mean true and 1 mean false?” My answer: in all Unix shell contexts. > Instead, use "success" and "failure". You'd better borrow the time machine and tell the creators of Unix. The meme is already established for decades now. -- \ “Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It | `\ indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” | _o__) —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
