On Jul 24, 10:53 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> writes: > > I know I am flogging a dead horse here, but IMHO, '165', '165.', > > '165.0', and '165.00' are all valid string representations of the > > integer 165.[1] > > I disagree entirely. Once you introduce a decimal point into the > representation, you're no longer representing an integer. > > (They might be the same *number*, but that's not saying the same thing.) >
Fair enough. I never did CS101, so I am looking at this from a layman's perspective. I am happy to be corrected. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
