bool and unicode

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Roman Yakovenko]
> But still I expect this code to work.
>
> assert False == bool( str( bool( False ) ) )
>
> The context of previous expression is in serialization.


It would be more reasonable to expect:

    assert False == bool(eval(repr(False)))

The code you listed does work for int, complex, long, and float,
but does not generalize to other types:

>>> int('2')
2
>>> complex('3+4j')
(3+4j)
>>> long('3L')
3L
>>> float('3.14')
3.1400000000000001
>>> list('[1,2]')         # this won't work
['[', '1', ',', '2', ']']
>>> tuple('(1,2)')      # neither will this
('(', '1', ',', '2', ')')


Raymond Hettinger