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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2022-12-03 19:52:21 (GMT)
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bpo-15999: Accept arbitrary values for boolean parameters. (#15609)
builtins and extension module functions and methods that expect boolean values for parameters now accept any Python object rather than just a bool or int type. This is more consistent with how native Python code itself behaves.
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@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ Other Language Changes
In a future Python version they will be eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`98401`.)
+* All builtin and extension callables expecting boolean parameters now accept
+ arguments of any type instead of just :class:`bool` and :class:`int`.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`60203`.)
+
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