False = None = True Is probably the most ridiculous thing for a language to supp...

wmanley · on Oct 11, 2021

    $ python2 -c 'False = None = True'
      File "<string>", line 1
    SyntaxError: cannot assign to None

    $ python3 -c 'False = None = True'
      File "<string>", line 1
    SyntaxError: cannot assign to False

anttihaapala · on Oct 11, 2021

... and yet, it is a SyntaxError. False = True = None works in Python 2, and it is just because the separate Boolean type was a late addition.

klyrs · on Oct 11, 2021

Oops, yep. I've seen somebody overwrite False in the wild, but I thought None was writable too. Glad for that smidgen of sanity...