PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Alexis Layton]

I am generally in favor of PEP 285: Adding a bool type.

Like most, I believe the capitalized versions of the truth values
"True" and "False" should be used.

I believe str(True) should not be "1", but rather "True" or whatever
other localization should be in effect once python is properly
internationalized... (<wink>?)

repr(True) should always be "True".

As for int-compatibility, were we designing Python from the ground up
it might be the case that it should be designed as a pure truth type. 
But we are constrained by Pythons 1-2.2.x so True has to be
truly-comparable to 1.

-- 
Alexis Layton
alexis.layton at post.harvard.edu