On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Ranting Rick <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > But if you are going to argue that "if obj" is *explicit enough*, then > apply your argument consistently to "String"+1.75 also. Why must we be > explicit about string conversion BUT not boolean conversion? Can you > reduce this to the absurd? Or will you just choose to ignore this > valid point?
Personally, I'm quite okay with automatic upcasts to string. But if you want to be explicit, particularly with floats, the solution often is not to use str(), but a proper number-formatting routine. You want "String%f"%1.75 for full power. But when you're just letting the language do the translation, it's much of a muchness whether you put an explicit toString() call in. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
