"news.sydney.pipenetworks.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Really ? Then why are you using python.
Try "import this" at a Python prompt. I didn't invent "Explicit is better than implicit." > Python or most dynamic languages are are so great because of their > common sense towards the "implicit". Python is not "most dynamic languages", and does not seem to implicitly "cast" objects into other types. Python may be "dynamic", but it's also "strongly typed", a feature I consider a benefit, though you are of course free to disagree. > c = "%s%s" % (a, b) > There is an implicit str(b) here. Not if you read the docs, as another poster has pointed out. > ''.join(["string", 2]) to me is no different then the example above. TypeError: sequence item 1: expected string, int found Which pretty much supports my initial argument -- if a non-string got into the list, something needs to be fixed, and it isn't the behavior of the join() method! Nick -- # sigmask || 0.2 || 20030107 || public domain || feed this to a python print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),' Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAcboefstobudi/psh?') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
