- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
Thanks to Alex Martelli.
diff --git a/Objects/boolobject.c b/Objects/boolobject.c
index af6150d..f2429fe 100644
--- a/Objects/boolobject.c
+++ b/Objects/boolobject.c
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@
bool_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
{
static char *kwlist[] = {"x", 0};
- PyObject *x;
+ PyObject *x = Py_False;
long ok;
- if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "O:bool", kwlist, &x))
+ if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "|O:bool", kwlist, &x))
return NULL;
ok = PyObject_IsTrue(x);
if (ok < 0)