[Python-ideas] Programming recommendations (PEP 8) and boolean values

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Wed Aug 8 18:59:04 CEST 2012


On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:18:53AM +1000, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> What is a compelling use case for checking precisely for True or False?

 To distinguish False and None for a tri-state variable that can have
3 values - "yes", "no" and "unspecified" - True, False and None in
Python-speak.
Oleg.
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