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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	docs@python, mark.dickinson
Date	2011-11-28.14:01:08
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Docs nit: at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-values we have """ The built-in function bool() can be used to cast any value to a Boolean ... """ It's a little unusual to talk about casting in Python. Any objections to replacing 'cast' with 'convert'?

Docs nit:  at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-values we have

"""
The built-in function bool() can be used to cast any value to a Boolean ...
"""

It's a little unusual to talk about casting in Python.  Any objections to replacing 'cast' with 'convert'?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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