[Python-3000] Status of True, False, bool type
Talin
talin at acm.org
Mon Jan 1 22:17:34 CET 2007
Josiah Carlson wrote:
> >>> 1 is not True
> True
> >>> 1 == True
> True
> >>> isinstance(True, int)
> True
>
This makes perfect sense to me. 'True' is implicitly convertible to, but
not identical to, 1.
(I was about to type a long-winded explanation of why this makes sense
from a historical and philosophical perspective, but I think I'll just
skip it for now.)
-- Talin
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