Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

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Le 16/04/2011 23:13, Ben Finney a écrit :

> The ‘bool’ built-in is not a function.
>
>      >>>  type(bool)
>      <type 'type'>
>


Oops, unfortunate confusion!! but built-in types and built-in functions 
are sometimes so similar from the user's point of view ;)

All the same, you can notice that the official documentation describes 
bool() as a built-in function, cf. 
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html