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[Daniel Klein]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 02:13:57 GMT, Lee Harr <missive at frontiernet.net>
wrote:

>In article <fucrivcvd2mel7k51ij1hktb55gqnmk9ic at 4ax.com>, Daniel Klein wrote:
>> In Python 2.2 I use to have
>> 
>> true = (1 == 1)
>> false = not true
>> 
>> This was at the recommendation of someone on this list some time ago.
>> The reason (if I remember correctly) was that setting
>> 
>> true = 1
>> false = 0
>> 
>> were not true booleans.
>> 
>> Now the expression (1 == 1) returns 'True', and caused a bug in my
>
>Actually, it returns True, not 'True'
>

In this case, it _did_ return a literal string of 'True' cuz I was
using str(true) and str(false). That was the nature of the buglet.
Before str(true) would return return '1' and str(false) would return
'0'. Sorry that I didn't include this bit of information in the
original post :-(

Dan