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

[Walter Dörwald]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:
> 
> 
>>But in the new scheme, there is a "blessed" Boolean type.  Does this
>>make the other kinds of true and false less legitimate?

These "other kinds of true and false" should IMHO be implemented
via a conversion method __bool__ (just like __int__, __str__,
__unicode__ etc.) and will be a bool aware version of __nonzero__
which should be deprecated.

if should internally call this bool conversion method.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald

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