[Python-ideas] Should bool continue to inherit from int?

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/21/2015 03:32 AM, Michael Mitchell wrote:

> 1) Would it still be very inconvenient to implement bools separately from ints?

Extremely.  Lots of code relies on the int properties of bool.

> 2) Do most Python users still agree that arithmetic operations should be supported on booleans?

I certainly do.  It might be nice from an ivory-tower perspective to keep bools separate from ints, but in a
Practicality Beats Purity world it is quite handy.

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~Ethan~

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