If someone really really wants a non-int Boolean, it is easy to implement. 5 or 6 lines, depending on whether you count the import statement:
from enum import Enum class MyBool(Enum): TRUE = 42 FALSE = 54 def __bool__(self): return self == MyBool.TRUE # # testing # mytrue = MyBool.TRUE try: print(int(mytrue)) #this fails except TypeError as te: print(te) asbool = bool(mytrue) if mytrue: print("yep") myfalse = MyBool.FALSE if myfalse: print("nope") --- I would never use such a thing, and I would be annoyed if I can across code that did. As has been said (beaten to death?) Python has an existing well-understood boolean type. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list