PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Aahz]

In article <2NJp8.140405$Yv2.43077 at rwcrnsc54>,
Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
>
>Someone (Guido?) already mentioned that testing for true is redundant,
>but doesn't :
>    if 2:
>imply
>    if 2 == True:

Nope.  That's like saying

    if '':

having the same result as

    if []:

implies that

    '' == []

which is completely untrue.
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