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On 26 October 2014 01:03, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> I suspect that Guido and the core developers disagree with you, since
>> they had the opportunity to fix that in Python 3 and didn't.
>
> That doesn't follow; there are numerous warts in Python 2 that were not
> fixed in Python 3. As I understand it, the preservation of bool=E2=80=93i=
nt
> equality has more to do with preserving backward compatibility.

Guido van Rossum answered Jul 28 '11 at 21:20,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3174392/is-it-pythonic-to-use-bools-as-i=
nts
> False=3D=3D0 and True=3D=3D1, and there's nothing wrong with that.