On 8/9/2016 9:22 AM, Joseph Bane wrote:
Hello.
It recently came to my attention that the strtobool function in the
standard library doesn't return Python native boolean values, but
rather returns integer 0 or 1:
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.5/Lib/distutils/util.py#l304
I am curious why this is the defined behavior and whether anyone can
fill me in regarding this approach. For clarity, I would expect the
code to `return True` and `return False` rather than `return 1` and
`return 0`.
I am rather sure distutils predates 2.2 and the addition of bool. Much
code has been converted from 0/1 to False/True. I don't know if this
particular holdover is intentional -- fear of breaking something -- or
oversight/inertia.
I searched the tracker for 'strtobool' in component 'distutiles', status
"don't care", and there were no hits. (Search is not perfect, though.)
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Terry Jan Reedy
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