[issue12447] ~True is not False

STINNER Victor added the comment: bpo-37831 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. -- nosy: +vstinner ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12447] ~True is not False

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: This is deliberate, and will not be changed (at least not until Python 4, and likely not even then). Please ask on a Python forum about history and motivation of the boolean type in Python if you want to know more. -- nosy: +loewis

[issue12447] ~True is not False

New submission from Matt Joiner anacro...@gmail.com: Given there is no ! operator in Python, I next tried ~ (despite that I'm after a logical not). This came as a surprise: bool(~True) True bool(~False) True bool(~~False) False ~True, ~~True, ~False, ~~False (-2, 1, -1, 0) Is there any

[issue12447] ~True is not False

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: Did you try the not operator? http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#boolean-operations not True False not False True -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: - invalid status: open - pending