candide wrote:

bool(x) is nothing more than a shortcut for the following expression : True if x else False.

It's a much shorter and easier-to-read shortcut.

Also keep in mind that if-else expressions are quite a recent
addition to the language.

Before that, we had 'not not x' as another equivalent

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