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Date	2009-05-11.21:24:17
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I think it would allow for more pythonic code if the threading.Event and multiprocessing.Event classes had the __bool__ special attribute. This would allow doing "if e: ..." instead of "if e.is_set(): ...". This could be backported to 2.x really easily by just replacing __bool__ to __nonzero__. See also the thread starting here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/004617.html

I think it would allow for more pythonic code if the threading.Event and
multiprocessing.Event classes had the __bool__ special attribute.  This
would allow doing "if e: ..." instead of "if e.is_set(): ...".

This could be backported to 2.x really easily by just replacing __bool__
to __nonzero__.

See also the thread starting here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/004617.html

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