Booleans are integers?!

Hi, Welcome to this short section. We will discuss Booleans and the fact that the fact that they can be used as integers in your code.

This is a curious fact and I thought it would be interesting to share it with you! J

Let’s get started!

You can find the article on Python Documentation under numbers.Integral:

https://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy

Here are some demonstrations in the Shell of how we can compare and operate on True and False as if they were integers 1 and 0 respectively.

Hope it helps! If you have any questions, please ask them in the forums, your classmates and Community TAs will always be there to help you!

Estefania.