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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-04-19 18:15:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-04-19 18:15:10 (GMT) |
| commit | aa86e35c524275e1f6cca91c1f8fcfc15e8d8b30 (patch) | |
| tree | 09a2231543fb1f83d759ee5bfa41bca0a88d500a /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | a26854095be67418bc89eff4874b32e33d7e5bf6 (diff) | |
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- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
Thanks to Alex Martelli.
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than + raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the + constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument + they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135) + - In support of PEP 269 (making the pgen parser generator accessible from Python), some changes to the pgen code structure were made; a few files that used to be linked only with pgen are now linked with |