Regarding the magical "or" operator

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at compaq.com> writes:

    GE> Personally I think there should be a separate Boolean type,
    GE> and it should be an error to test the truth of any other type.

Last time the idea of a boolean type was brought up, I think we zeroed
<wink> in on the attached Python prototype.  I'm not sure I like the
second half of your proposal; it works okay I s'pose in Java, but
doesn't seem right in Python.

-Barry

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
class Bool:
    def __init__(self, flag=0):
        self.__flag = not not flag

    def __str__(self):
        return self.__flag and 'true' or 'false'

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.__str__()

    def __nonzero__(self):
        return self.__flag == 1

    def __cmp__(self, other):
        if (self.__flag and other) or (not self.__flag and not other):
            return 0
        else:
            return 1

    def __rcmp__(self, other):
        return -self.__cmp__(other)

true = Bool(1)
false = Bool()