Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> added the comment: > For this purpose it is appropriate to use a special converter > (with 'O&').
The converter works--but, then, a similar converter would also work for double, and float, and long long and many others. If long long is special enough to merit explicit support in PyArg_ParseTuple, then bool definitely is, as I strongly suspect bool is used much more frequently. > I suppose it must be a strict сonverter; there is no point > in specifying followlinks=[1, 2, 3]. I don't see a need for that either, but--where would you draw the line? What is the principle that says "ints are okay, floats are... okay, lists are not"? Python has a long-established concept of the "truthiness" of an expression. I *strongly* suggest we stick with that unless we have a *very* good reason why not. > note that 'b' and 'B' are already used. I'm a moron! I must have looked right at it and it didn't register. 't' (truth) and 'f' (false) are also taken. As is 'c' (conditional). The only thing I can come up with that's remotely related and isn't already taken is 'p' for predicate. > It is better first to use the сonverter, and expand the format > only when the enough number of uses. I suspect there are already loads of places in the standard library that should be using this rather than abusing 'i'. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14705> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com