Paul Rubin wrote: > "John Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > then "x == 3" is false, but "int(x) == 3" is true. > > But then why is 3.0 == 3 true? They are different types. > > The 3 gets converted to float, like when you say > > x = 3.1 + 3 > > the result is 6.1.
Yes - it just seems that there isn't a principled reason for implicitly converting 3 to 3.0 in 3.0 == 3 but not implicitly converting "cat" to boolean in "cat" == true. There is something to be said about SML's rigourous approach where 3.0 = 3 isn't even allowed since it is considered ill-typed. Nevertheless, it is doubtlessly convientent to be able to compare integers and doubles directly in the natural way and there is little practical reason to compare a string with a truth value so Python's solution does have common sense on its side. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
