On Thu, May 28, 2015, at 23:48, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > > The possibility of spelling these with the comparison operators, as some > > have suggested, is a consequence of Python's implementation where True > > == 1 and False == 0. In other languages bool may not be relatable (or at > > least not orderable), or False may be == -1. > > True.
Gah. I said "False may be -1", but what I *meant* was that *True* may be -1: something that has some merit for bitwise logic (-1 is all-bits-1). This is, for example, used in pre-.NET incarnations of Visual Basic (and COM's VARIANT_BOOL type inherits from this). VB, incidentally, has its own spellings for these operators, with the "Imp" and "Eqv" operators. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
