PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Guido van Rossum]

[me]
> > Tim must be missing something.  The obvious way to turn a bool b into
> > an int is int(b).  Having to import the obscure 'operator' module for
> > this purpose is backwards.  (IMO there's almost *never* a reason to
> > import that module anyway.)

[Ralph]
> I thought Tim was trying to map a range of integer values onto just 0
> and 1 as ints, not False and True, where as you're suggesting he just
> wants to get an int from a boolean.  I think he has an expression like
> day_of_month, e.g. 30, and wants a 0 or 1 from it.

I should've said int(bool(x)) for any expression x.  When I wrote int(b) I
meant b to be a value that was already a bool.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)