[Python-checkins] r61569 - in sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3: fixes/fix_filter.py tests/test_fixers.py

[Neal Norwitz]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM, david.wolever
>  <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>  > Author: david.wolever
>  >  Date: Tue Mar 18 23:01:27 2008
>  >  New Revision: 61569
>  >
>  >  Modified:
>  >    sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3/fixes/fix_filter.py
>  >    sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3/tests/test_fixers.py
>  >  Log:
>  >  Fixed 2to3's handing of filter(None, seq).  Now it will return [_f for _f in seq if _f].
>
>  Why that translation? filter(bool, seq) would seem to be more natural.

Probably because David listened to me an that was the first thing I
thought of. :-)
I like the idea of using bool better.

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