PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Terry Reedy]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1017597529.7660.python-list at python.org...
> [Ralph Corderoy, to Guido]
> > What do you think of `truth(x)' for all the good reasons listed
> > elsewhere in the thread?  You used truth yourself instead of
Boolean
> > above.
>
> Actually, he didn't.

Actually he did.  The 'above' quote Ralph is referring to is

    "IMO, bool(x) is the right way to "normalize" any value into a
    truth value."

Note the second to last word: 'truth', not 'Boolean'.  The point is
that if Guido spontaneously phrased it this way, the suggestion to go
with that phrasing is not completely crazy.

Terry J. Reedy