Argument of the bool function

Sun Apr 10 00:15:44 EDT 2011

On Apr 10, 8:35 am, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2011年04月09日, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 04/09/11 08:59, candide wrote:
> >> Le 09/04/2011 00:03, Ethan Furman a ?crit :
>> >>>  > bool([x])
> >> dir([object])
> >> Not very meaningful, isn't it ?
>> > The error says it unambiguously, dir() does not take *keyword*
> > arguments; instead dir() takes *positional* argument:
>> >     dir("Explicit is better than implicit")
>> I think the point is that both cases are documented exactly the same.

In what case(s) would a keyword arg to bool be reasonable?