为什么我不能在 Python 中扩展 bool?

2022-01-19 00:00:00 python boolean restriction

问题描述

>>> class BOOL(bool):
...     print "why?"
... 
why?
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases
    type 'bool' is not an acceptable base type

我认为 Python 信任程序员.

解决方案

Guido 的看法:

我最后想到了这个晚上，并意识到你不应该完全可以继承 bool ！一个子类只有在它有用时才有用有实例，但仅仅是存在bool 子类的实例会打破 True 的不变量和 False 是唯一的实例布尔！(C 的子类的一个实例也是 C 的一个实例.)我认为重要的是不要提供后门创建额外的布尔实例，所以我认为 bool 不应该可以子类化.

I thought about this last night, and realized that you shouldn't be allowed to subclass bool at all! A subclass would only be useful when it has instances, but the mere existance of an instance of a subclass of bool would break the invariant that True and False are the only instances of bool! (An instance of a subclass of C is also an instance of C.) I think it's important not to provide a backdoor to create additional bool instances, so I think bool should not be subclassable.

参考:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-March/020822.html

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