[docs] [issue21232] Use of '1' instead of 'True' as 'splitlines' argument in difflib documentation
Terry J. Reedy
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Apr 18 22:55:12 CEST 2014
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
In 2.x, 1 is guaranteed to be true, in that sense that
if 1: print 'true'
is guaranteed to print 'true', while True is not necessarily true.
>>> True = 0
>>> if True: print 'yes'
>>>
So 2.x docs should not be changed.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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