true = 1

[Skip Montanaro]

    Mark> I don't know whether this has ever been proposed, but how about
    Mark> built-in "constants" for true and false?

Yup.  There are even Py_True and Py_False objects available at the C level.
For one reason or another (mostly because 1 and 0 work well enough I think),
they've never been exposed to the Python programmer.

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