On 2 nov, 14:54, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > Not necessarily. Something duck typing is too liberal in what it accepts. > You might want convert(math.pi) to raise an exception
What I meant was that the function should not reject unnecessarily non- numeric things that can be converted to a number, like a string. However, you're right: numeric things that are not integers should not be treated silently as if they were. > although I'd suggestion an assert is the wrong test. A better test would be an > explicit type check with raise. I completely agree. Cheers, -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
