Erik Max Francis wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The really interesting question your post raises, though, is "Why do > >> you feel it's necessary to test to see whether a variable is a > >> Boolean?". > > > > What's the point of having Booleans, if you can't tell them from integers? > > Because > > return True > > is clearer than > > return 1 > > if the purpose of the return value is to indicate a Boolean rather than > an arbitrary integer. > True, but if that is the only reason, Two built-in value of True/False(0/1) serves the need which is what is now(well sort of). Why have seperate types and distinguish them ?
>>>True == 1 True >>>True is 1 False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
