PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[David Abrahams]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
news:2NJp8.140405$Yv2.43077 at rwcrnsc54...

> Someone (Guido?) already mentioned that testing for true is redundant,
> but doesn't :
>     if 2:
> imply
>     if 2 == True:
> which in turn then implies that:
>     True == 2
> is true?

Not exactly.

    if x:

would be the same as

    if bool(x):

(which is the same way it works in C++, FWIW).

-Dave