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Author	vinay.sajip
Recipients	Riccardo Coccioli, docs@python, vinay.sajip
Date	2020-10-12.14:47:14
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Message-id	<1602514034.17.0.932629084127.issue42011@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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I agree that the documentation now should use Booleans rather than ints for the return type. It's a hangover from the pre-bool days of Python 1.5.2 ... > P.S. As a side note, the API for filter() is quite counter-intuitive That depends on if you consider the "filter" operation as "filter in" or "filter out", but the documentation is clear on what needs to be returned for a particular outcome.

I agree that the documentation now should use Booleans rather than ints for the return type. It's a hangover from the pre-bool days of Python 1.5.2 ...

> P.S. As a side note, the API for filter() is quite counter-intuitive

That depends on if you consider the "filter" operation as "filter in" or "filter out", but the documentation is clear on what needs to be returned for a particular outcome.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-10-12 14:47:14	vinay.sajip	set	recipients: + vinay.sajip, docs@python, Riccardo Coccioli
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