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

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:23:02 +0100


Oops, silly me!

From: Samuele Pedroni <pedroni@inf.ethz.ch>
> Although it was not said so explicitly, my design exercise
> related to Jython shows that probably a lot of Jython user code
> will still preserve many:
> 
> jbean.beanProp = 1
> 
> where 1 would be better written as True.
> 

Obvisiouly the same problem exists for the flags in
the all pre-exiting Python code, and all the
  = 0
  = 1
there. And it seems Guido does not care about that.

regards.