Florian Berger <fber...@florian-berger.de> added the comment: Voting for re-opening.
I am currently porting a non-threaded function for use within a threaded application. If threading.Event had __bool__, it would be a drop-in replacement for simple True/False flags that can not be used in multithreaded code. To me, it is actually surprising that I can not do tests like "if event: ...". IMHO, "if event.is_set(): ..." is unnecessarily complicated, especially with the documentation speaking of a true/false flag all the time. I will subclass threading.Event now and add __bool__, but I don't feel this is a nice solution. ---------- nosy: +fberger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5998> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
