PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:38:00 -0500, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>Tim must be missing something.  The obvious way to turn a bool b into
>an int is int(b).

Will this work on old versions of python? I've just checked that it 
works on 2.0, but what about 1.5.1 or 1.6?

I'd guess (b*1) would work on everything, however.


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