Bengt Richter wrote: [...]
It's a weird beast, being a subtype of int also. I'll defer to the BDFL in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0285.html
""" The values False and True will be singletons, like None. Because the type has two values, perhaps these should be called "doubletons"? The real implementation will not allow other instances of bool to be created. """
Regards, Bengt Richter
It would probably make sense (IMHO) to deny rebinding of True and False in the same way that 2.4 denies rebinding of None. Given that people would set True and False themselves in order to make their pre-2.4 code readable, however, this may overstress backward compatibility.
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