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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 03:28, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> The error is also facilitated because C doesn't have booleans
> and so everything can be used as one.

Python does have booleans and everything can be used as one - the
logical conclusion is that being able to use everything as a boolean is
a positive feature that has nothing to do with lacking a "proper"
boolean type.