22.12.20 03:18, David Mertz пише:
> Indeed. The discussion around this was quite specifically that many
> people defined:
>
> True = 1
> False = 0
>
> At the top of their code, and used that. This was the main reason they
> were built-ins rather than keywords, so as not to break that large body
> of existing code.
I think that it was rather to allow writing the code
try:
True, False
except NameError:
True = 1
False = 0
which would work with new and old Python versions.
People that defined they own constants before adding bool would likely
used "true" or "TRUE".
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