On 8/9/16 1:42 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 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 integ
False
>>> 0 is False
False
I am definitely not arguing that this behavior be changed, but just putting
the larger issue into context.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Michael Selik
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:26 AM Joseph Bane wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> It
On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 9:34:44 AM UTC-4, Michael Selik wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:26 AM Joseph Bane wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > It recently came to my attention that the strtobool function in the
> > standard library doesn't return Pytho
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 whethe
