Python23: cannot inherit from bool?

[Michael Hudson]

"Andrew Thompson" <andrew.thompson at ashecastle.com> writes:

> Inheriting from bool is a clever idea from Smalltalk.

... which is not Python

> Where true and false subclass the abstract type bool.
> 
> This then makes if,and,or,not all very natural to define.

However, in Python those things are already defined by the language...
I can appreciate the purity viewpoint, but it doesn't really apply
here.

Cheers,
M.

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