I will say I think that last comment misses the point. It’s true that environment variable boolean configuration is definitely common enough I wouldn’t balk at some normalized methods for handling it. But, I think the point has been well made it’s an opinionated choice that Python can’t force on other languages/systems even if Python normalized to exactly one, and so it’s better your opinion on parsing be explicit, given the potential for interface confusion.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 8:14 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 3/30/2022 11:02 AM, Adrian Torres Justo wrote: > > Fair enough, thanks for the explanation > > ... > > >> There are a lot of ways to interpret "convert to bool" - should "yes" and >> "no" be converted? What about "1" and "0"? Or "001", or "-1"? What should >> happen to unrecognised values? What if the environment variable doesn't >> exist? It's not at all obvious to me that strtobool is the definitive way >> of doing this (quite apart from the fact that distutils will be getting >> removed from the stdlib in Python 3.12 - see >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/). >> >> What is so special about *this particular way* that it's worth including >> in the stdlib? Particularly when it's so easy to write for yourself. >> > Also: what's so special about bool? Why not int, float, datetime, etc? > > Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KHOTWD4ZWFCCZU6UW73RIZXWCMZGURPQ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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