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| From | Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> |
| Subject | Re: Python Worst Practices |
| Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:48:21 +1100 |
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes: > (Flipping the booleans makes no sense to me. When would 0 mean true > and 1 mean false? Isn't it much more likely that, for instance, 0 > means success and nonzero means error (and maybe there's just one > error state, so 1 means failure)?) You've answered your question, I believe. In some contexts – such as Unix shell – 0 ⇒ success ⇒ true, and non-0 ⇒ failure ⇒ false. The Unix commands ‘true’ and ‘false’ follow that convention <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_and_false_%28commands%29>. -- \ “Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.” —Henry N. Camp | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney
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