diff --git a/mercurial/templateutil.py b/mercurial/templateutil.py
--- a/mercurial/templateutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/templateutil.py
@@ -333,7 +333,6 @@ def evalstringliteral(context, mapping, 
     return stringify(thing)
 
 _evalfuncbytype = {
-    bool: evalboolean,
     bytes: evalstring,
     int: evalinteger,
 }