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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	mark.dickinson, tcaswell, terry.reedy
Date	2019-08-29.17:03:17
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Message-id	<1567098197.73.0.190486062444.issue37980@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Closely related: #37427. I'm not sure why that issue was closed. My naive expectation would be that in most cases where an API specifies a flag, an arbitrary Python object can be used for that flag (and is then interpreted in boolean context). That's the natural behaviour that you get when handling flags in pure Python code. Ex: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8ba8cc51a9899594f7fe66fe790973d83fd3d657/Lib/pathlib.py#L190

Closely related: #37427. I'm not sure why that issue was closed. My naive expectation would be that in most cases where an API specifies a flag, an arbitrary Python object can be used for that flag (and is then interpreted in boolean context). That's the natural behaviour that you get when handling flags in pure Python code.

Ex: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8ba8cc51a9899594f7fe66fe790973d83fd3d657/Lib/pathlib.py#L190

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Date	User	Action	Args
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2019-08-29 17:03:17	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1567098197.73.0.190486062444.issue37980@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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