Wish: List.FilterByBoolMask to accept 0/1 as True/False

[ColinDayOrg]

Issue by andydandy74
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014 at 16:09 GMT
Originally opened as DynamoDS/Dynamo#3436

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When I pull data from Yes/No parameters using Element.GetParameterValueByName, Dynamo returns them as 1 or 0. However, List.FilterByBoolMask will only work with True/False. As a workaround, I can take this through a Formula node (x==1), but it would make sense if booleans were automatically converted between Revit and Dynamo.
0.7.5 RC

[ColinDayOrg]

Comment by ksobon
Friday Dec 19, 2014 at 23:47 GMT

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This should not be an issue since 0 is False and 1 is True in almost any programming language. An issue would be going from a VB based boolean value that is returned as "true" and Python which is case sensitive and expects "True". I never had any trouble with 0 and 1 not being interpreted properly. This is weird.

[ColinDayOrg]

Comment by andydandy74
Sunday Nov 29, 2015 at 16:36 GMT

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Conditional statements in code block nodes aren't as fussy. They deal with 0/1 just like they are dealing with False/True. So it's the List.FilterByBoolMask node that should be augmented to also accept lists of ones and zeroes as a mask.

[ColinDayOrg]

Comment by ksobon
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016 at 17:59 GMT

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+1 I agree. List.FilterByBoolMask should accept 0/1 as True/False

[ColinDayOrg]

Comment by johnpierson
Thursday Oct 04, 2018 at 15:44 GMT

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Definitely still a wishlist item in 2.0.1