Terry Reedy wrote: > "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | I think that the assignability to the names 'True' and 'False' is > | incorrect, or at the very least subject to all sorts of odd results. > > It is necessary for 2.x to not break older code. I believe they will > somehow be reserved, like None, in 3.0. > But of course None was assignable until (?) 2.3 and then became formally constant, so it was no longer possible to assign to it or even shadow it in a local namespace. So much for that kind of backward compatibility!
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