[Python-ideas] Should bool continue to inherit from int?

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> 2) Do most Python users still agree that arithmetic operations should be
>> supported on booleans?
>>
>
> It would be so massively backward compatible that it's not worth thinking
> about.
>

The only time I encountered a situation where True + True was not 2 was in
numpy:

>>> numpy.bool_(True) + True
True

That was *very* inconvenient!
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