[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Guido van Rossum]

> > PEP: 285
> > Title: Adding a bool type

[Aahz]
> +1000   ;-)
> 
> One question: do True/False behave like None, particularly WRT "is"?

That depends on what the meaning of "is" is. (*)

Yes, there will be only one True and one False.  That's what the
_create flag on the __new__ method was trying to suggest.

(*) Did anyone else notice that in his Python10 paper, Alex Martelli
waxed philosophically for an entire paragraph (with references
throughout the ages!) on what the meaning of "is" is, without ever
mentioning the US Presidency? :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)