> > Despite the negative feedback, I've decided to accept the PEP. The > > most important perceived problem is that newbies tend to write > > > > if x == True: ... > > > > where they should write > > > > if x: ... > > > > I believe this problem should be solved by education (the Zen master > > hits the student on the head with a stick, and the student gets > > enlightenment) rather than by holding back what I believe will be a > > useful feature. > > Would it not be "relatively" easy to add a compiler-time warning for > most uses of this dangerous idiom? I think this would be a job for PyChecker. Neal? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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