py/parse: Allow const types other than int to optimise as true/false.

Allows optimisation of cases like:

    import micropython
    _DEBUG = micropython.const(False)
    if _DEBUG:
        print('Debugging info')

Previously the 'if' statement was only optimised out if the type of the
const() argument was integer.

The change is implemented in a way that makes the compiler slightly smaller
(-16 bytes on PYBV11) but compilation will also be very slightly slower.

As a bonus, if const support is enabled then the compiler can now optimise
const truthy/falsey expressions of other types, like:

    while "something":
        pass

... unclear if that is useful, but perhaps it could be.

Signed-off-by: Angus Gratton <angus@redyak.com.au>

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