On 2013-10-10 12:10, MRAB wrote: > Re "==", this page: > > http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php > > states: > > """If you compare a number with a string or the *comparison involves > numerical strings*, then each string is converted to a number and > the comparison performed numerically.""" (emphasis added) > > So they get coerced to numbers if they _look_ like numbers!
BEDEVERE: How do you know she is a number? VILLAGER1: She looks like one! CROWD: Right! Yeah! Yeah! BEDEVERE: Bring her forward. STRING: I'm not a number. I'm not a number. BEDEVERE: Uh, but you are dressed as one. STRING: They dressed me up like this. Tenuously-trying-to-keep-python-related'ly yours, -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list