Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't have a copy of 1.4 to check so I'll believe you, but you can >> certainly get the output I asked for with much more recent versions. > >> For the answer I actually want each asterisk substitutes for exactly >> one character. > > Then I'll guess you're looking for something like '0==0', with Python > 2.2 or so (so that you'd get the PyTrue object). > Yes, that was the answer I was looking for: CPython 1.5.x (or maybe earlier?) to 2.2.x without a bool type but separate values for true and false (as used by PyWin). Also it seems that Jython 2.2.1 (and probably other versions) behaves the same way.
I'm intrigued though by Stargaming's answer with 1//1, I must look into that one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
