PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Just van Rossum]

In article <a8slgr$pin$1 at nyheter.chalmers.se>,
 jacob at boris.cd.chalmers.se.cd.chalmers.se (Jacob Hallen) wrote:

> In article <3CAF524F.63E46C81 at alcyone.com>,
> Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> >Jacob Hallen wrote:
> >
> >> Python is a language that is weakly typed, ...
> >
> >You mean dynamically typed, not weakly typed.
> 
> I have been brought up in an environment which called anything
> allowing mixed types in a list weakly typed.

The two are orthogonal; have a look at the bottom of this page:

  http://diveintopython.org/odbchelper_funcdef.html

Just