ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[Neal Norwitz]

James Logajan wrote:
> 
> Eri Ma Franci <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> > Could you find something better to complain about?
> 
> Then I'd like to complain that neither you nor Guid va Rossu addressed the
> question I asked in my previous message concerning bools as keys. If a bool
> is to be treated as an int sometimes and sometimes not, I don't recall
> seeing anything about whether it will be treated as an int as a dictionary
> key. If I do:
> 
> x = ["is", "are"]
> y = {0: "", 1:"s"}
> 
> for n in range(3):
>    print "There %s %d item%s." % (x[n <> 1], n, y[n <> 1])
> 
> Will the behavior be backword compatible and equivalent or not? Simple
> question I assume; waiting for an answer.

You could try it yourself, but it looks the same to me.

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 13 2001, 19:37:40) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = ["is", "are"]
>>> y = {0: "", 1:"s"}
>>> 
>>> for n in range(3):
...    print "There %s %d item%s." % (x[n <> 1], n, y[n <> 1])
... 
There are 0 items.
There is 1 item.
There are 2 items.

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Python 2.3a0 (#238, Apr  4 2002, 20:30:33) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = ["is", "are"]
>>> y = {0: "", 1:"s"}
>>> 
>>> for n in range(3):
...    print "There %s %d item%s." % (x[n <> 1], n, y[n <> 1])
... 
There are 0 items.
There is 1 item.
There are 2 items.