[Python-ideas] Hijacking threads [was: Changing the meaning of bool.__invert__]

[Franklin? Lee]

On Apr 8, 2016 3:09 AM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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> Ethan Furman wrote:
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>> Can anybody please enlighten me as to what, exactly, I did wrong?
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> I think Guido was objecting to talk about things such as
> making bool no longer subclass int, which is not only
> going a long way beyond the original proposal, but is
> almost certainly never going to happen, so any discussion
> of it could be seen as wasting people's time.

While reading the thread, I was honestly wondering about whether it was
Pythonic to have bool be a subclass of int. (It's definitely convenient.)
So that, at least, might be a justified "Should we also...".
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