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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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<dd><em class="refcount return_new_ref">Return value: New reference.</em><em class="stableabi"> Part of the <a class="reference internal" href="stable.html#stable"><span class="std std-ref">Stable ABI</span></a>.</em><p>Return <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> or <a class="reference internal" href="#c.Py_False" title="Py_False"><code class="xref c c-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Py_False</span></code></a>, depending on the truth value of <em>v</em>.</p>
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