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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:59:51 +1200
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Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

> Also boolean xor is the same as !=.

Only if you have booleans. Even without short circuiting,
a boolean xor operator could provide the service of
automatically booling things for you (is that a word?).
> 
> Jean-Paul