[Python-Dev] bool conversion wart? (original) (raw)
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Neal> Except, all the numeric types do, including int, float, and
Neal> complex. But not bool. The fact that bool is a subclass of int is more historic than necessary. If not for Python's long usage of 0 and 1 to be the canonical False and True, I suspect that bool might have been implemented as a new standalone type.
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