gh-91038: Change default argument value to False instead of 0 (#31621)

Rotzbua · hauntsaninja · arhadthedev · web-flow · commit f3cb15c88afa · 2023-02-26T18:10:34.000-08:00
The argument is used as a switch and corresponds to a boolean logic. Therefore it is more intuitive to use the corresponding constant `False` as default value instead of the integer `0`.

Co-authored-by: Shantanu &lt;12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin &lt;oleg@arhadthedev.net&gt;
diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Cross Platform
    string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
 
 
-.. function:: platform(aliased=0, terse=0)
+.. function:: platform(aliased=False, terse=False)
 
    Returns a single string identifying the underlying platform with as much useful
    information as possible.
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ def python_compiler():
 
 _platform_cache = {}
 
-def platform(aliased=0, terse=0):
+def platform(aliased=False, terse=False):
 
     """ Returns a single string identifying the underlying platform
         with as much useful information as possible (but no more :).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-26-12-37-17.gh-issue-91038.S4rFH_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-26-12-37-17.gh-issue-91038.S4rFH_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+:meth:`platform.platform` now has boolean default arguments.

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	`1`	+:meth:`platform.platform` now has boolean default arguments.