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~bool deprecation not reported for literals #134280

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Related to: #103487

# literal.py
print(~False)
print(~True)

# var.py
a = True
print(~a)

b = False
print(~b)

A DeprecationWarning is reported for var.py, but not for literal.py.

$ python -c 'import sys; print(sys.version)'
3.15.0a0 (heads/main:42d03f3, May 19 2025, 23:32:01) [GCC 15.1.1 20250425 (Red Hat 15.1.1-1)]

$ python literal.py
-1
-2

$ python var.py
/tmp/scratch/var.py:2: DeprecationWarning: Bitwise inversion '~' on bool is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16. This returns the bitwise inversion of the underlying int object and is usually not what you expect from negating a bool. Use the 'not' operator for boolean negation or ~int(x) if you really want the bitwise inversion of the underlying int.
  print(~a)
-2
/tmp/scratch/var.py:5: DeprecationWarning: Bitwise inversion '~' on bool is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16. This returns the bitwise inversion of the underlying int object and is usually not what you expect from negating a bool. Use the 'not' operator for boolean negation or ~int(x) if you really want the bitwise inversion of the underlying int.
  print(~b)
-1

What's interesting is that there's a test for this:

with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
# also check that the warning is issued in case of constant
# folding at compile time
self.assertEqual(eval("~False"), -1)
and the DeprecationWarning is raised if eval("~True") is used instead of just ~True

$ python -c 'print(~True)'
-2
$ python -c 'print(eval("~True"))'
<string>:1: DeprecationWarning: Bitwise inversion '~' on bool is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16. This returns the bitwise inversion of the underlying int object and is usually not what you expect from negating a bool. Use the 'not' operator for boolean negation or ~int(x) if you really want the bitwise inversion of the underlying int.
-2

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch, 3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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