Why do integers compare equal to booleans?

[Santiago Basulto]

> Because Python used not to have a boolean type and used the integers 0
and 1 instead

Exactly as Jon says. I wrote a post some time ago with more info about it:
https://blog.rmotr.com/those-tricky-python-booleans-2100d5df92c

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:23 PM duncan smith <duncan at invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> On 16/11/18 14:51, Steve Keller wrote:
> > Why do the integers 0 and 1 compare equal to the boolean values False
> > and True and all other integers to neither of them?
> >
> >     $ python3
> >     Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 12 2018, 13:43:14)
> >     [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
> >     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
> >     >>> 0 == False
> >     True
> >     >>> 1 == True
> >     True
> >     >>> 2 == False
> >     False
> >     >>> 2 == True
> >     False
> >     >>> -1 == False
> >     False
> >     >>> -1 == True
> >     False
> >     >>>
> >
> > Since these are objects of different types I would expect they cannot
> > be equal.  I know that 0 means false and != 0 means true in C, C++,
> > etc. but in Python that surprises me.
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> >>> isinstance(False, int)
> True
> >>> isinstance(True, int)
> True
> >>> False.real
> 0
> >>> True.real
> 1
> >>>
>
> At least in recent Pythons.
>
> Duncan
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