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

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> For the first time, we'll have a standard way to cast an
    GvR> arbitrary value to a normalized truth value.  Currently we
    GvR> write "not not x" for that.  Now *that* is ugly.

That's a huge benefit I hadn't thought of.  I use that idiom often
because it's a cheap substitute for the lack of a ?: statement.  But
it does confound a lot of people!

-Barry