ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[James Logajan]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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>     7) Should the name 'bool' be changed?
> 
>     => No.

Too bad. I believe his name was spelled Boole, not Bool or Boolean. You had 
a chance to properly honor him and didn't for some reason. Why drop a 
single letter of a dead man's name? This seems to be a pettiness that has 
gained universal appeal, alas. Shades of "creat" versus "create". Maybe 
there is some conspiracy against the letter "e" on the end of words?

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> Compatibility
> 
>     Because of backwards compatibility, the bool type lacks many
>     properties that some would like to see.  For example, arithmetic
>     operations with one or two bool arguments is allowed, treating
>     False as 0 and True as 1.  Also, a bool may be used as a sequence
>     index.

Just to be clear, what kind of object will this be when it is a key in a 
dictionary? If I have:

x = { 1: "I win", 0: "I lose" }

and do

x[2 == 1] = "Bummer"

what does the dictionary contain? Two entries or three? Is a bool value 
promoted to an int when used as a dictionary key?