On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:38 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh777 at charter.net>wrote: >> Yes. And you have managed to point out a serious flaw in the overall logic > and consistency of Python, IMHO. >> Strings should auto-type-promote to numbers if appropriate. Please no. It's a little more convenient sometimes when you're coding, but it adds bugs that aren't worth the small benefit. Explicit is better than implicit. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20110422/7637c612/attachment-0001.html>