PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Martin v. Loewis]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> So does this change proposes to change the readability so that
> it is clear at a glance (at the source, not the documentation, which
> seems an odd thing to base this on) that those functions return
> boolean conditions rather than integers?

The documentation should change as all, documenting that certain
functions return bool.

> If that is _all_ this change does, I suppose it would be okay.
> If it in _any way_ changes the functionality one can currently
> expect for those return values, such as the ability to use as
> indices into a sequence, then I'm still very -1.

Their type changes, and their repr. Apart from that, nothing changes.

> Furthermore, there will be code breakage, and that should always
> rate very high on the list of reasons to leave well enough alone.

Can you show examples of (real!) code that will break? Preferably code
you've written yourself.

Regards,
Martin