Re: Returning proper booleans from python to gnumeric 1.0.12

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:04:20AM -0800, Anthony D. Urso wrote:
> I have this function in my rc.py for gnumeric:
>
> def func_iff(context, a, b):
>     if a == b:
>         return True
>     return False
>
> Unfortunately, returning True actually returns 1, and returning "TRUE"
> actually returns "'TRUE".
>
> Is there any method of returning actual gnumeric booleans from the python
> plugin?

My quick reading of the 1.0.12 python-loader code is that it
supports this.

Value *
convert_python_to_gnumeric_value (const EvalPos *eval_pos, PyObject *py_val)
....
        } else if (py_val_type == (PyObject *) &py_Boolean_object_type) {
                ret_val = value_new_bool (py_Boolean_as_gboolean ((py_Boolean_object *) py_val));

but then again I didn't try it and have not run 1.0.x in almost a
year.  You may want to update to the 1.2.x series and see if the
problem persists.