Erik Max Francis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > True too, and could be the reason(or similar too) why the OP wants to > > test the type rather than the logical value of it. > > The type is for the self-documentation purposes. The value is the same; > so no, that's not a good reason either. > I don't know why he wants it, let alone whether it is a good or bad reason. The only thing I read from his post is that he wants to distinguish the type, why and how it fits in his big picture, no one but he knows. It could be for similar reason, say to document the content of data, store it in text file, translate it to another language(say converting python object to js object but I forgot if javascript treat 0/1 the same way as python).
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