Setting the value of True

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Fri Aug 23 19:38:43 EDT 2013

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Python allows you set the value of True
>>> True = 1.3

Now this is consistent with the decision to let you set the
value of various builtin names. But why is this case different:
>>> None = 1.3
 File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: cannot assign to None
Mark Gawron

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