[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Aahz Maruch]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> PEP: 285
> Title: Adding a bool type
> 
>     This PEP proposes the introduction of a new built-in type, bool,
>     with two constants, False and True.  The bool type would be a
>     straightforward subtype (in C) of the int type, and the values
>     False and True would behave like 0 and 1 in most respects (e.g.
>     False==0 and True==1 would be true) except repr() and str().  All
>     built-in operations that conceptually return a Boolean result will
>     be changed to return False or True instead of 0 or 1; for example,
>     comparisons and the "not" operator.

+1000   ;-)

One question: do True/False behave like None, particularly WRT "is"?
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