Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Mon Apr 18 00:40:48 EDT 2011

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Chris Angelico:
> Dave Angel:
> >>>> bool = int
> Any language that allows you to do this is either awesome or
> terrifying. Come to think of it, there's not a lot of difference.

Even better:
$ python2.7 -c 'False = True; print False'
True
Alas:
$ python3 -c 'False = True; print(False)'
 File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: assignment to keyword
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 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org

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