On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, sprad <jsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 3, 6:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- > cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> The OP comes from a Perl background, which AFAIK allows you to concat >> numbers to strings and add strings to numbers. That's probably the (mis) >> feature he was hoping Python had.
I guess perl must have coercing for it's built-in types ? :) *shrugs* To be honest, doing such operations doesn't make much sense to me ... It's difficult to correctly understand what the following expression should evaluate to: >>> a = 2 >>> b = 3 >>> c = "foo" >>> a + b + c Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' >>> "%d %d %s" % (a, b, c) '2 3 foo' >>> > That's correct -- and that's been one of the more difficult parts of > my transition. Learned C++ in college, spent a few years doing Perl, > and now all of a sudden type matters again. It's a very different > philosophy, but I'm determined to stick with it until I have an Aha! > moment and find something I can do more easily than I can with Perl. As mentioned string formatting is your friend :) cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
