On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 01/05/2014 03:31 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> >> On 01/05/2014 02:32 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: >>> >>> I wonder why nobody complains about the absent of implicit conversion >>> between int and str. In PHP you can write 2 + "3" and got 5, but in >>> Python this is an error. So sad! >> >> I'd want my implicit conversion of 2 + '3' to get '23' > > Huh. And here I thought 'twenty-three' was the right answer! ;)
I quite like 2+"3" being "23", as it simplifies a lot of string manipulation. But there's another option: 2+"3456" could be "56". That one makes even more sense... doesn't it? I mean, C does it so it must make sense... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
