What has PEP 285 done to us?

[Erik Max Francis]

Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:

> That's not how I saw it. The main point I extracted was: Until now,
> the Pythonic "truth values" have been "something" and "nothing" (i.e.
> the empty list, zero, None, etc.) With the bool type this is still
> true, but we get a type which will give newbies the impression that it
> isn't.

So explain it to them.  It only takes a sentence or two.  The bool type
just provides one more value that's a "nothing," and one more value
that's a "something," for cases where what you're interested in is truly
nothing but a truth functional value.

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