[Python-Dev] Boolean transition

[Tim Peters]

[Samuele Pedroni]
> ...
> If *I* was about to separate bool from int
> (but for that I would need to be conviced about the errors
> I'm going to avoid with that),
> both int(False) and int(True) would fail - I mean - their result
> is as much intuitive as summing booleans directly <wink>.
> ...
> So I would introduce a specific built-in
> for that conversion (maybe chi() <wink>).

That's the function operator.truth() serves -- or would have, if Guido
hadn't broken it <wink>.