ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[Paul Rubin]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
> > I think there will need to be a format code for truth values:
> > 
> >   ("%b" % True) => "True"
> 
> There's no need.  "%s" % True already yields 'True'.  if you want
> coercion to bool, use "%s" % bool(b).

In that case there's also no need for %d, since "%s" % 17 already
yields '17'.  If ints have a format code and bools don't, one is
left with the impression that bools aren't as respectable a type
as ints.  That doesn't seem in the spirit of the PEP.