Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

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12 points | by PaulHoule 5 days ago ago

1 comments

globular-toast 31 minutes ago ago
The binary "is spam" thing seems like a non-issue, unless I'm misunderstanding something. In Python you can easily implement Boolean attributes using predicates without breaking the API, like so:
```
    @property
    def is_spam(self) -> bool:
       return self._comment_check in {"true", "blatant"}
```
Then you can simply add another predicate to support the blatant case:
```
    @property
    def is_blatant_spam(self) -> bool:
       return self._comment_check == "blatant"
```