On Jul 28, 7:32 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:52 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I > > couldn't reference it. > > Python doesn't have type-casts in the sense of "tell the compiler to > treat object of type A as type B instead". The closest Python has to that > is that if you have an instance of class A, you can do this: > > a = A() # make an instance of class A > a.__class__ = B # tell it that it's now class B > > and hope that it won't explode when you try to use it :/
Type casts in C and non-pathlogical C++ don't modify the object they are casting. int (and str, float, etc.) is the closest thing to a type cast in Python. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
