Changing truth
Christian Tismer
tismer at tismer.com
Thu Jan 16 06:08:34 EST 2003
Michael Hudson wrote:
> Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
...
>>>>>bool(True == True)
>>
>>False
>
> Now *that* I don't understand.
You are right. I didn't have Py 2.3 at hand
and was misleading myself.
>># ouch! Let's make these invulnerable, ASAP,
>># and None, too
>
>
> Hey, noone in this thread's even tried to fiddle with the builtins
> yet...
Right, the swaps were done via __main__, and even
if done in __builtins__, the above would have given
True.
What I think is that None, False and True have the
drawback that they are names, which can be changed.
I would like to make them like literals.
Nobody can try to write
1 = 42
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