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Originally, the plan was to move toward a full error or a more aggressive deprecation schedule. However, Issue #122982 proposes . This extension serves a few key purposes:

In Python, booleans are a subclass of integers. When you apply the bitwise NOT operator ( ~ ) to a boolean: ~True (which is ~1 ) evaluates to -2 . ~False (which is ~0 ) evaluates to -1 . 122982

Large codebases and libraries need time to refactor code that might be legacy or automatically generated. Originally, the plan was to move toward a