on 13.12.2005 11:39 Fredrik Lundh said the following: > Duncan Booth wrote: >>Another reason to have a boolean type is of course to provide a cast: >> >> def isNameSet(self): >> return boolean(self.name) [snip] > > given that Python already had a function for this, that wasn't > much of a reason: > >>>>help(operator.truth) > > Help on built-in function truth in module operator: > > truth(...) > truth(a) -- Return True if a is true, False otherwise. > [snip]
As operator.truth() is equivalent to bool() and as it is the only thing in operator that is not really reflecting an operator, I had a look into PEP3000 to see if (the redundant) operator.truth is going to be removed. It is not mentioned. (not that I really care, but I thought I could provide something productively new to discuss about, to end the "why is bool an int?" discussion ;-) stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
