Boolean idioms (was Re: re Challenge: More Compact?)

[Tim Daneliuk]

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> In article <mailman.995247446.16415.python-list at python.org>,
> Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> >
> >Well, it's un-Pythonic to try to emulate Perl undef via Python None; it's
> >idiomatic to return 0 for false and 1 for true, [...]
> 
> I know that it's a frequent Python idiom to use 0/1, but where is it
> specifically un-Pythonic to use None/1?
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Well, in the spirit of really being anal-retentive, I use:

FALSE =  1==0
TRUE  = not FALSE


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