[issue45891] bool variable isinstance of int

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[issue45891] bool variable isinstance of int

noobie1000 added the comment: Hello Steven, Sorry, this is my first ever post and was lost in the enormity of issues/documentation. Noted your points :) Thank you. -- resolution: not a bug -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue45891] bool variable isinstance of int

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Hi noobie1000, This is not a general forum for asking questions about Python's design or language, this is for reporting bugs. There are many forums where you can ask "Why" questions and ask for the community to "shed some light on this", such as

[issue45891] bool variable isinstance of int

Christian Heimes added the comment: This is the expected behavior. The bool type is a subtype of int. True is int 1 in disguise and False is int 0. >>> bool.__mro__ (, , ) >>> True == 1 True >>> True == 2 False >>> False == 0 True -- nosy: +christian.heimes

[issue45891] bool variable isinstance of int

New submission from noobie1000 : Hello, Recently I observed that isinstance(x, int) returns True, even when x is defined as a bool. While I understand that internally, a bool is treated as an int with values 0 and 1; to me, this is a bit misleading that the python interpreter returns True