integer >= 1 == True and integer.0 == False is bad, bad, bad!!!

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> And I think that partly this is simply historical.  Before a proper
> boolean type was added to Python, 1 and 0 were the norm for storing
> truth values.  Changing the truth value of 0 when bools were
> introduced would have broken tons of existing code.  This is also the
> reason why bool is a subclass of int.

Another thought related to that list bit:  if bool(0) were True, then
bool(int(False)) would also be True.  That seems messed up.  Then
again, bool(str(False)) is already True.  Does that bother anybody
other than me?