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Author anacrolix
Recipients anacrolix
Date 2011-06-30.05:45:41
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Message-id <1309412742.21.0.0834751390952.issue12447@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Given there is no ! operator in Python, I next tried ~ (despite that I'm after a logical not). This came as a surprise:

>>> bool(~True)
True
>>> bool(~False)
True
>>> bool(~~False)
False
>>> ~True, ~~True, ~False, ~~False
(-2, 1, -1, 0)

Is there any consideration to "fixing" this? Is int(True) 1 due to C? Why is it preferred over -1?

It seems more appropriate to me that True have:

def __invert__(self): return False
def __int__(self): return 1 # or even -1

This also "fixes" this case too:

>>> -True
-1
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