On 16 Mai, 10:03, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday we found the cause of a bug that has caused problems for a long > time. > It appeared to be the following: > > class A(object): > pass > > print min(1.0, A()) > > which is accepted by Python even though the A() object is not numerical in > nature. > > The cause of this behavior seems to be the compare operation of the object > class. > > Is there a way to disable this behavior in Python (other than deriving a new > 'object-like' class that doesn't do comparisons?) > > Sincerely, > Albert
Are you sure you don't want to use a statically typed language that captures all type errors just by inspecting your source code? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list