#28259: Make bool(AnonymousUser) evaluate to false
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Reporter: Linus Lewandowski | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: contrib.auth | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by Tim Graham):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-
developers/rGWdttZO06g/discussion django-developers discussion]
Closing for now as Adam's reply on the mailing list confirms my intuition:
"We already have if `request.user.is_authenticated` and
`request.user.is_anonymous` which are both more explicit and pythonic.
Additionally all python classes, and thus instances of User atm, are by
default truthy, so implementing this custom `__bool__` introduces space
for more subtle bugs, e.g. the result of `filter([request.user])` would
change."
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