I thought it was silly at first, but then found it easier on the eyes and quicker to confirm what's enabled. Still, requesting a change to the core language/library through additional code (with the inevitable introduction of more bugs) in order to support some syntactic sugar that really doesn't provide any additionally functionality, does seem particularly problematic.
If this were C, one could simply define a couple macros. I suggest the author does the equivalent in Python. On 18 April 2013 01:30, Petr Blahos <petrbla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Recently I was setting up configuration for a new project and was trying >> to do the obvious thing in my .ini: >> >> pyramid.reload_templates = ✔ >> pyramid.debug_authorization = ✖ >> pyramid.debug_notfound = ✖ >> pyramid.debug_routematch = ✖ >> pyramid.debug_templates = ✔ >> >> >> To my surprise, the checkmark did not evaluate to True! What is this >> madness? Obviously, 2013 is the year of Python 3 and unicode should be a >> first class citizen! >> >> So I've prepared a pull request >> https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/984 that adds proper truthy >> checks in asbool and would love to hear feedback! >> > > I hope this is some kind of a belated april joke. Please let us stay with > true, false, 0, 1, 2, 3... otherwise we might end up with stuff like > nope, why not, only on every second Thursday, and such. > -- > Petr > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
