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Re:Parsing R code: Freedom of expression is not always a goo... by tech2 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:46PM (#31742113)
That's history coming back to bite it though. There was a period where the symbols True and False existed in Python but the bool class did not. True was _literally_ 1, and False was 0. Because of this, for backward compat, bool is a subclass of int.
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