Effect of tilde on booleans — why ~True is -2 & ~False is -1 in Python?

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00:00 Question
01:36 Accepted answer (Score 7)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6348...

Question links:
[W3Schools]: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_...
[This answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34502832/856...
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