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<span id="boolobjects"></span><h1>Boolean Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#boolean-objects" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Booleans in Python are implemented as a subclass of integers. There are only
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<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.12: </span><a class="reference internal" href="#c.Py_True" title="Py_True"><code class="xref c c-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Py_True</span></code></a> is immortal.</p>
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