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Absolutely not. I want True == 2 to be False.

Interesting. so: operator.truth(2) would be True

Yes, this would do exactly the same as bool(2).

but: 2 == True would be False

Just as in C99 (the new updated C standard, not yet in actual use).

and: bool(2) would be True

Once again, casting, coercion, comparisons and truth value rear their fuzzy heads.

For the first time, we'll have a standard way to cast an arbitrary value to a normalized truth value. Currently we write "not not x" for that. Now *that* is ugly. Also, you'll be able to use 'is' and 'is not', as follows: if bool(x) is True: ... if bool(y) is not True: ... Not that I endorse this (I still think that anybody who takes a boolean result and then compares it to True is crazy), but it reads like English. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)