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Subject: Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:40:48 -0700
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Chris Angelico:
>  Dave Angel:
> >>>> bool = int
> Any language that allows you to do this is either awesome or
> terrifying. Come to think of it, there's not a lot of difference.

Even better:
$ python2.7 -c 'False = True; print False'
True

Alas:
$ python3 -c 'False = True; print(False)'
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: assignment to keyword

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org