I didn't want to jump on the bandwagon, but...
It occurs to me that one potential benefit of having a
boolean type is to avoid mistakes like this:
test = value & MASK
if test == True:
DoSomething()
Sure, "if bool(test) == True:" does the right thing, but
so does "if test:". You wouldn't have made the mistake
in the first place if you'd thought of that. :-)
I think at least add something like this should be added
to the description in the PEP:
def __cmp__(self,other):
return int.__cmp__(self,bool(other))
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