On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Yes, this is documented:
Indeed. I was actually looking under "Built-in Types", <http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/stdtypes.html> rather than "Built-in Functions." I now remember that I noted this issue before. This part of the manual is not optimally subdivided into sections: 2. Built-in Functions (covers bool() and other builtin type constructors) 3. Built-in Constants (covers True and False) 4. Built-in Types 4.1. Truth Value Testing 4.2. Boolean Operations — and, or, not 4.3. Comparisons 4.4. Numeric Types — int, float, complex ... As a result, there is no one place where one can find information about bool. I wonder if it should go somewhere under section 4.4. After all,
isinstance(True, int) True