Does Python need an 'xor' operator?

[phil hunt]

On 14 Apr 2002 11:06:43 +0200, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:
>
>> >bool(a) ^ bool(b)
>> >
>> Hm, ^ should probably be != to return bools instead of integers?
>
>It turns out that ^ returns bool if both arguments are bool.

And what if one is bool and the other is an int?

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