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

[Erik Max Francis]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Mark McEahern wrote:
> 
> > So what's different?
> 
> more than one way to do it.  more than one concept to
> explain to newcomers.  more than one "obviously correct"
> way to do things.  less is more.  etc.

But there already _is_ "more than one way to do it."  Python has a wide
variety of kinds of objects which are treated as false in truth tests,
this just adds one more whose purpose is indicate an exclusive attempt
to distinguish between true and false (except for all the others which
can take on a wide variety of "true" values).

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