[Python-Dev] Subtle difference between f-strings and str.format()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:27:19PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> The optimizer already changes 
> semantic. Non-optimized "if a and True:" would call bool(a) twice, but 
> optimized code calls it only once.

I don't understand this. Why would bool(a) be called twice, and when did 
this change? Surely calling it twice would be a bug.

I just tried the oldest Python 3 I have on this computer, 3.2, and bool 
is only called once.



-- 
Steve