(test) ? a:b

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Oct 26 22:28:38 EDT 2014


Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> writes:

> Guido van Rossum answered Jul 28 '11 at 21:20,
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3174392/is-it-pythonic-to-use-bools-as-ints
> > False==0 and True==1, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Guido is incorrect. I've already stated what's wrong.

That's different from saying I want to change how Python behaves *now*,
of course. But to say “there's nothing wrong with that” dismisses the
problems without addressing them. Guido isn't perfect, so that's okay.

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