Overriding True and False ?

Mon Jan 30 02:50:56 EST 2017

Irv Kalb <Irv at furrypants.com> writes:
> I teach intro to programming using Python. […]

Thank you for teaching Python to beginners!
> It seems very odd that Python allows you to override the values of
> True and False.

Yes, it is. That's why Python 3 forbids it::
 >>> True = "shadow"
 File "<stdin>", line 1
 SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword
 >>> False = "light"
 File "<stdin>", line 1
 SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword
When teaching Python, please do not teach Python 2. Your students should
learn Python 3 first, primarily, and for most of the course.
Python 2 is a legacy that will never gain new features, and will only
slip further behind the current supported Python version. That makes
Python 2 a poor choice for teaching to beginners.
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