While I agree on the pragmatic value of it, and I think this is a pretty minor blemish in the semantics of Python. You can easily have booleans as a completely

While I agree on the pragmatic value of it, and I think this is a pretty minor blemish in the semantics of Python. You can easily have booleans as a completely different type, and yet avoid stuff like: `1 if boolean else 0`... In Haskell, for example, `True + True` and `True == 1` are compile errors (unless you defined wacky Num instances), and the boolean/int "identity" is simply handled by `fromEnum` (which works on any Enum, not only Bool) 1 == fromEnum True 0 == fromEnum False