[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:39:18 -0600

 >> One question: do True/False behave like None, particularly WRT "is"?
 Guido> That depends on what the meaning of "is" is. (*)
 Guido> Yes, there will be only one True and one False. That's what the
 Guido> _create flag on the __new__ method was trying to suggest.
Hmmm... A boolean type can only take on two values. I presume you will
expose True and False through builtins. Why would you need a __new__ method
or any notiong of "creation"?
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