On 07/12/2010 06:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Early versions of BASIC used -1 as true and 0 as false.
They did this for good reason. BASIC had no logical operators. AND, OR, and NOT were all actually bitwise operators. By making the True value -1, the bitwise operations yielded the result one would expect from logical operations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
