From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:40:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values from
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4641
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=442c7c77430136ae4ef399fd24cef5ea8720cf25;p=python

Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values from
__nonzero__(), in response to SF bug #579991.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index 5caefb31de..d3e0079d96 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ The following values are considered false:
 \begin{itemize}
 
 \item	\code{None}
-	\withsubitem{(Built-in object)}{\ttindex{None}}
+        \withsubitem{(Built-in object)}{\ttindex{None}}
 
 \item	\code{False}
-	\withsubitem{(Built-in object)}{\ttindex{False}}
+        \withsubitem{(Built-in object)}{\ttindex{False}}
 
 \item	zero of any numeric type, for example, \code{0}, \code{0L},
         \code{0.0}, \code{0j}.
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ The following values are considered false:
 \item	any empty mapping, for example, \code{\{\}}.
 
 \item	instances of user-defined classes, if the class defines a
-	\method{__nonzero__()} or \method{__len__()} method, when that
-	method returns the integer zero.\footnote{Additional
+        \method{__nonzero__()} or \method{__len__()} method, when that
+        method returns the integer zero or \class{bool} value
+        \code{False}.\footnote{Additional 
 information on these special methods may be found in the
 \citetitle[../ref/ref.html]{Python Reference Manual}.}