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

[Samuele Pedroni]

> Damn, you're right.  I'll patch doctest to special-case the snot out of
> those specific strings <wink>.  In the meantime,
> 
> def ibool(e):
>     return e and 1 or 0
>     # or "return operator.truth(e)"
> 
> will work across all Pythons forever, or back to 1.4 if you use
> operator.truth to avoid offending yourself <wink>.
> 

And will improve doc tests doc readability <wink>.

sorry-I-couldn'-stop-myself-ly y'rs - Samuele.