Re: BooleanVar() etc.

Hi Mark,

Thus spoketh Mark Summerfield <list <at> qtrac.plus.com> 
unto us on Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:42:33 +0100:

> Hi,
> 
> Right now it is possible to do
> 
>     bv = BooleanVar()
>     bv.set(any_old_rubbish)
>     b = bv.get() # b is an int not a bool
> 
> I've reported this as a bug and commented that I think that BooleanVar,
> IntVar, FloatVar, and StringVar should honor the type in their names
> (i.e., bool, int, float, str).
> 
> If this matters to you could you look at the issue and maybe comment?
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue15133

I've been there and spent my 2 cents ;)
Now I just wanted to leave a comment here, too.
First, the return value of get() is not neccessarily an int:

>>> b = BooleanVar()
>>> b.set('yes')
>>> b.get()
True
>>> b.set('1')