Moshe Zadka moshez at zadka.site.co.il
Mon Dec 18 22:54:23 EST 2000

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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:52:29 -0500, D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote:

> Thus while true: is equal to while 1: except that a boolean, not an
> integer is used for the test.  I, for one, would like to abolish the
> concept that an integer can denote true or false.  How many functions
> return 0 for success?  (just take a look at the standard C library).

Luckily, Python functions denote failure by exceptions, and success
is implicit. Returning a number (1/0) as a boolean is an accepted practice,
and is usually followed in the Python library. Exceptions are things
like os.system, which are thin wrappers to C calls. 
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