[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:10:43 +1300 (NZDT)

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:

Guido's proposal is for bool to be a subclass of int. Consequently, 28 + True should yield 29

But True - 1 won't equal False. Should it?

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