add support for Python's bool type to xmlrpclib - patch # 559288

Lib/xmlrpclib.py

@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ try:
 except NameError:
     unicode = None # unicode support not available
 
+try:
+    _bool_is_builtin = False.__class__.__name__ == "bool"
+except NameError:
+    _bool_is_builtin = 0
+
 def _decode(data, encoding, is8bit=re.compile("[\x80-\xff]").search):
     # decode non-ascii string (if possible)
     if unicode and encoding and is8bit(data):
@@ -266,6 +271,11 @@ class Fault(Error):
 # @param value A boolean value.  Any true value is interpreted as True,
 #              all other values are interpreted as False.
 
+if _bool_is_builtin:
+    boolean = Boolean = bool
+    # to avoid breaking code which references xmlrpclib.{True,False}
+    True, False = True, False
+else:
     class Boolean:
         """Boolean-value wrapper.
 
@@ -411,7 +421,9 @@ def _binary(data):
     value.decode(data)
     return value
 
-WRAPPERS = DateTime, Binary, Boolean
+WRAPPERS = (DateTime, Binary)
+if not _bool_is_builtin:
+    WRAPPERS = WRAPPERS + (Boolean,)
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # XML parsers
@@ -599,6 +611,13 @@ class Marshaller:
         write("</int></value>\n")
     dispatch[IntType] = dump_int
 
+    if _bool_is_builtin:
+        def dump_bool(self, value, write):
+            write("<value><boolean>")
+            write(value and "1" or "0")
+            write("</boolean></value>\n")
+        dispatch[bool] = dump_bool
+
     def dump_long(self, value, write):
         if value > MAXINT or value < MININT:
             raise OverflowError, "long int exceeds XML-RPC limits"

Misc/NEWS

@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ Extension modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Xmlrpclib.py now supports the builtin boolean type.
+
 - py_compile has a new 'doraise' flag and a new PyCompileError
   exception.