bool and int

[Mike Baskin]

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> On Jan 24, 2023, at 2:59 PM, rbowman <bowman at montana.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:22:00 -0500, Dino wrote:
> 
>> $ python Python 3.8.10 (default, Mar 15 2022, 12:22:08)
>> [GCC 9.4.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license"
>> for more information.
>>>>> b = True isinstance(b,bool)
>> True
>>>>> isinstance(b,int)
>> True
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>> WTF!
> 
> 
>>>> b = True
>>>> isinstance(b, bool)
> True
>>>> isinstance(b, int)
> True
>>>> c = b + 10
>>>> print(c)
> 11
>>>> b = False
>>>> c = b + 10
>>>> print(c)
> 10
> 
> 
> bool is a subtype of integer. I never dug that deep into Python's guts but 
> I assume it goes back to boolean being an afterthought in C. Some people 
> fancy it up with #defines but I always use int.  0 is false, anything else 
> is true.
> 
> C# is pickier, which I guess is a good thing. 
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