PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Alex Martelli]

Van Gale wrote:

> 
> "Max M" wrote:
> 
>> Oh stop whining!
> 
> Was that really necessary?

Indispensable!  Have you never taken Flamewars 101?  Starting with an
offensive tone is one of the best-known techniques in the business.
Deadpan is a more advanced subject, of course, although worthwhile.


>> Just do a search and replace in your codebase::
>>
>>      s/1/True/gi
>>
>> That should solve all those problems in a few seconds.
> 
> Yeah... it'll solve **those** problems, but think about it for a sec.
> Maybe, just maybe, this will create a slew of entirely different problems?

Actually, the VIM-only case-insensitivity flag is crucial here,
since it lets you substitute both uppercase 1 and lowercase 1
in one sweep (pity that, as written, it works for one line only,
but, if one's Python code IS just one line in all, that's OK).


Alex