Python 2.3 True = False

[Erik Max Francis]

Anand wrote:

> has anyone tried this before?

No different than the other Python "constants":

>>> None = 'asdf'
<stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None
>>> int = float
>>> import types
>>> types.StringType = types.IntType
>>> import time
>>> time.time = lambda: 0

Assignment to None, by special dispensation, gives you a SyntaxWarning. 
All of these things are ProgrammerDoingSomethingHeShouldntWarnings. 
Python doesn't have true constants (in the sense that what the point to
is no longer mutable or that the name is no longer rebindable, whichever
you might mean); it just has things which are officially special names
that a well-behaved program shouldn't fiddle with.

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