[SciPy-dev] Is "bool" the right name?

[Travis Oliphant]

Todd Miller wrote:

>Trying to add some newcore compatibility to numarray,  I bowled through 
>the obvious name collision between the new numarray "bool" and the 
>Python scalar type "bool."   The name collision is easy enough to work 
>around in the numarray internals,  but it occurred to me that "bool8" 
>might be a better name since it is more explicit, consistent with the 
>other type names,  and clearly resolves the recurring question "Is this 
>a 1-bit bool or not?".
>
>So,  while newcore is still young,  does it make sense to rename "bool" 
>to "bool8"?
>  
>
Actually, I renamed everything that was conflicting with standard Python 
types with an appended underscore.

When used as a data type, the standard Python scalars actually work to 
identify what is desired as well.

So dtype=bool_ and dtype=bool produce the same result, but of  course

bool_(...) produces an array of bools
and
bool() produces a single Python bool

-Travis