On Apr 22, 1:38 am, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Strings should auto-type-promote to numbers if appropriate.
No they should not! We do not want a language to "guess" our intentions. We are big boys and girls and should be responsible for own actions. > This behavior should occur in input() as well. If a 'number' string is > entered and can be converted to a Python number (whatever I mean by that > at the moment) then the string should be converted to a number (int or > float as appropriate) and the input() should return a reference to the > number type ( a value ); otherwise, input() should return the string > entered, or throw a type error. No, no, no! This is evil! That is what "eval" is for my friend. > If an operation like (+) is used to add 1 + '1' then the string should > be converted to int and the addition should take place, returning a > reference to object int (2). My god man, have you gone completely insane? 8-O -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
