Message212771
Rewording the issue title and reopening based on the python-ideas thread. The rationale for making this change is that the current behaviour converts a stylistic problem in checking values against a sentinel via "bool(value)" instead of "value is not None" into a subtle data driven behavioural bug that only occurs exactly at midnight UTC.
If someone wants to write the patch to deprecate this behaviour in Python 3.5 (reporting a deprecation warning whenever midnight is interpreted as False, perhaps suggesting the use of "is" or "is not" instead), and then actually change the behaviour in 3.6, I don't believe we should actively oppose them from doing so. |
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2014-03-05 22:36:22 | ncoghlan | set | recipients:
+ ncoghlan, lemburg, tim.peters, georg.brandl, belopolsky, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, cvrebert, gwrtheyrn, Lakin.Wecker, shai, Andreas.Pelme |
2014-03-05 22:36:22 | ncoghlan | set | messageid: <1394058982.1.0.886985023536.issue13936@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2014-03-05 22:36:21 | ncoghlan | link | issue13936 messages |
2014-03-05 22:36:21 | ncoghlan | create | |
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