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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> Why is it important *not* to have this property?

Probably not greatly important, it just seems to me that
there ought to be a fairly strong reason for taking the
somewhat drastic step of making something non-subclassable.

> it helps the implementation a bit

Only a tiny bit, surely? Anything which accepts a boolean
has to be prepared to deal with any type of object anyway.

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