Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

Sorry Joseph, I concur that with Ned that we're best off leaving this alone 
(risk of breaking doctests with the changing repr, risk of fooling an overly 
specific type test, etc).  The code is not incorrect and does correspond with 
its docstring which claims 1 for true and 2 for false.

The sentiment is appreciated, but in general, the time to get APIs perfect is 
when it is initially released.  Afterwards, we really only want to make 
implementation improvements or API extensions until the API is flat-out broken 
or has major usability problems (even then, it always causes consternation to 
change the API).

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nosy: +rhettinger
resolution:  -> not a bug
status: open -> closed

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