> But if booleans are to become a separate type eventually, > I think that '&' and '|' should perform the standard > (non-shortcircuiting) boolean algebra operations on them. >> In fact, that could be added now to the reference > implementation in the PEP -- I don't think it would > introduce any extra breakage. The PEP already does this. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)