Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: "2.0" doesn't look like an integer to me

Author:	Skip Montanaro
Posted:	1/19/1999; 7:21:02 PM
Topic:	Frontier on MacOS X Server
Msg #:	2287 (In response to 2277)
Prev/Next:	2286 / 2288

Ken wrote:

> We'll probably want to have a solid spec for how to handle that > because Perl doesn't have booleans at all.

Nor does Python. Fredrik solved this problem by defining a Boolean class in xmlrpclib and two instances, True and False. Booleans in the XML get mapped to those two objects. If Python acquires a boolean type in the future those two symbols can just get set to the true and false booleans.

Skip

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