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		anttihaapala on Oct 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding Python through its builtins ... and yet, it is a SyntaxError. False = True = None works in Python 2, and it is just because the separate Boolean type was a late addition.

klyrs on Oct 11, 2021 [–]

Oops, yep. I've seen somebody overwrite False in the wild, but I thought None was writable too. Glad for that smidgen of sanity...

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