Since it is seemingly ignored in most of the comments on this thread, I just want to remind that PEP 285 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0285/ says this:
In an ideal world, bool might be better implemented as a
separate integer type that knows how to perform mixed-mode
arithmetic.
I mentioned Python 3000 since that is an opportunity for an ideal world.
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
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