Josh Rosenberg added the comment: You'd prefer it say it returns 1 on success and 0 on failure? Or non-zero on success, zero on failure?
Is true/false that bad? After all, C says 0 is false, all other integer values are true; phrasing it as zero vs. non-zero may be slightly more technically accurate, but it's also a bit less readable, while 1 vs. 0 constrains the implementation (so you couldn't introduce a third "success but with additional info" state, similar to the third possible return from a "O&" converter function). ---------- nosy: +josh.rosenberg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21508> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
