On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 2:33:40 PM UTC+12, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> > Why do you object to the type conversion to bool? >> >> It would be better if all such conversions were explicit > > Why? It's entirely unambiguous: the expression of an ‘if’ statement *can > only be* evaluated in a Boolean context. What else could the reader > reasonably expect?
Error: Logical value not 0 or 1 That's what REXX would say if you used anything else in a boolean context. Improvement? You be the judge. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
