From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Replying To: Hans Nowak <wurmy@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:26:14 -0500
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

> This may be a minor issue, but this proposal will break code like
> 
>   days_feb = 28 + isleapyear(year)
> 
> assuming that booleans cannot be added to ints. :-)

Re-read the PEP.  bool subclasses int.  28 + True equals 29. 

--Guido van Rossum  (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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