[Python-Dev] bool does not want to be subclassed?

[Aahz]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004, François Pinard wrote:
>
> Hi, people.  I just noticed this:
> 
> >>> class booleen(bool):
> ...   def __repr__(self):
> ...     if self:
> ...         return "Vrai"
> ...     return "Faux"
> ... 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: type 'bool' is not an acceptable base type
> >>> 

Just to bolster Francois's case, I ran into this precise use case a week
ago myself (where I wanted a bool but needed to change the output
string).  Didn't bother complaining about it, though.  ;-)
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