PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Mark McEahern]

[Guido]
>    1) Should this PEP be accepted at all.

+1

[Paul Rubin]
> I don't see much need for it.  There's no need to turn Python into Java.
> Python, C, and Lisp have all done fine without bools.  What kinds of
> programming tasks in Python are bools supposed to make easier?

I view the proposal not as 'making programming tasks easier' but as
improving the readability of Python code.  If the proposal can achieve the
latter without 'making programming tasks harder', it seems like an obvious
win.

// mark