Why does concatenating a boolean value return an integer?
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In python, you can concatenate boolean values, and it would return an integer. Example:
>>> True
True
>>> True + True
2
>>> True + False
1
>>> True + True + True
3
>>> True + True + False
2
>>> False + False
0
Why? Why does this make sense?
I understand that True is often represented as 1, whereas False is represented as 0, but that still does not explain how adding two values together of the same type returns a completely different type.
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