bpo-15999: Accept arbitrary values for boolean parameters. (#15609)

builtins and extension module functions and methods that expect boolean values for parameters now accept any Python object rather than just a bool or int type. This is more consistent with how native Python code itself behaves.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index b3b7e8d..ff96c25 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ compile as builtin_compile
     filename: object(converter="PyUnicode_FSDecoder")
     mode: str
     flags: int = 0
-    dont_inherit: bool(accept={int}) = False
+    dont_inherit: bool = False
     optimize: int = -1
     *
     _feature_version as feature_version: int = -1
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ static PyObject *
 builtin_compile_impl(PyObject *module, PyObject *source, PyObject *filename,
                      const char *mode, int flags, int dont_inherit,
                      int optimize, int feature_version)
-/*[clinic end generated code: output=b0c09c84f116d3d7 input=40171fb92c1d580d]*/
+/*[clinic end generated code: output=b0c09c84f116d3d7 input=cc78e20e7c7682ba]*/
 {
     PyObject *source_copy;
     const char *str;
diff --git a/Python/clinic/bltinmodule.c.h b/Python/clinic/bltinmodule.c.h
index 19930a5..89f069d 100644
--- a/Python/clinic/bltinmodule.c.h
+++ b/Python/clinic/bltinmodule.c.h
@@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ builtin_compile(PyObject *module, PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs, PyObj
         }
     }
     if (args[4]) {
-        dont_inherit = _PyLong_AsInt(args[4]);
-        if (dont_inherit == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
+        dont_inherit = PyObject_IsTrue(args[4]);
+        if (dont_inherit < 0) {
             goto exit;
         }
         if (!--noptargs) {
@@ -1215,4 +1215,4 @@ builtin_issubclass(PyObject *module, PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs)
 exit:
     return return_value;
 }
-/*[clinic end generated code: output=3c9497e0ffeb8a30 input=a9049054013a1b77]*/
+/*[clinic end generated code: output=973da43fa65aa727 input=a9049054013a1b77]*/