bool behavior in Python 3000?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:42:01 +0200, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:

> Alan G Isaac wrote:
> 
>> My preference would be for the arithmetic operations *,+,-
>> to be given the standard interpretation for a two element
>> boolean algebra:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element_Boolean_algebra
> 
>>>> [bool(True+True), bool(True+False)]
> [True, True]
> 
> Works for me, or did I misunderstand you?

It seems to me that you deliberately misunderstood him. Why else would you
type-cast the integers 2 and 1 to bools to supposedly demonstrate that
there's nothing wrong with operations between bools returning ints?

I mean, by that logic, it should be okay if we had 

False = [] 
True = [None]

because:

bool(False + True), bool(True + True)

also gives (True, True). But that doesn't justify the choice of bools
being lists any more than it justifies the choice of bools being ints.


-- 
Steven.