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

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:28:05 -0600 

    Hans> This may be a minor issue, but this proposal will break code like

    Hans>   days_feb = 28 + isleapyear(year)

    Hans> assuming that booleans cannot be added to ints. :-)

I don't think this will be a problem.  Guido's proposal is for bool to be a
subclass of int.  Consequently, 28 + True should yield 29 (perhaps with a
warning from PyChecker).

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