Hi!
The patch is available here: http://ia.gd/patch/type_hint_53.txt
Technical comment: as this patch changes binary API this shouldn't happen in 5.3 branch. So maybe it's better to make it for 6.
As for the idea itself, it is obvious that many people like it, I would just note that it would produce a confusion for some people due to the fact that true, 1, 1.0, b'1' and '1' now become incompatible values and (once you start using typehints, of course) you'd have to explicitly convert them. That would lead people to stuff their code with explicit type conversions, which doesn't add to code cleanness. This also means that internal functions and user functions would behave differently with regard to type conversions.
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