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[Ethan Furman]

John Nagle wrote:
> On 10/1/2010 12:42 AM, bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 30 sep, 19:22, Andreas Waldenburger<use... at geekmail.INVALID>
>> wrote:
 >>>
>>> But it does violate the "explicit is better than implicit" tenet, don't
>>> you think?
>>
>> Why so ? The doc clearly states that booleans are integers with True
>> == 1 and False == 0, so there's nothing implicit here.
> 
>     Python "bool" values are NOT integers.  They can be coerced to
> integers for historical reasons.  But "str(True)" is "True".

Okay, so they are *subtypes* of integers, to be precise... but what, 
exactly, does the string representation of an object have to do with its 
type?

~Ethan~