isinstance(False, int)

Rolando Espinoza La Fuente darkrho at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 13:27:48 EST 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> Just a brainfart from the BDFL - he decided (around 2.2.3, IIRC) that it
> would be a good ideal for Booleans to be a subclass of integers.
>

I would never figured out

>>> bool.__bases__
(<type 'int'>,)

Doesn't have side effects not knowing  that False/True are ints?

Regards,

Rolando



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