Changing truth

[Christian Tismer]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
[Assigning to True, False, None]

> Assignment to None will be disallowed in a future release. True and
> False would have been banned in the same way as well, if testing
> hadn't found that quite a lot of code has constants named True and
> False already. As this code gets modified to use the builtin
> constants, SyntaxWarnings, then Errors, can be added for these as
> well.

Maybe a compromize would be to capture
assignments to True and False in a way
that they issue a warning if the assigned
value is not coercable to 1 resp. 0?

you-can-have-any-color-provided-it's-black - ly y'rs - chris

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