[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[David Abrahams]

> > Do you propose to change the type of "x == y" et. al. from int -->
bool?
>
> Yup.
>
> > Sounds good to me.
>
> I know. :-)
>
> > In general, I can change my doctests to use assert rather than
looking
> > for 1 or 0.
>
> Hm, assert is the wrong thing though, since it's optimized away in -O
> mode.  You may have to create your own function "check(x)" that does
> nothing on true but raises an exception on false, or prints "Yes" or
> "No", or something like that.

Ick. Not that I run my doctests in -0 mode, though.