On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Luciano Ramalho <luci...@ramalho.org> wrote: > I know I can do type(A+B)(A), or A+B-B, but both alternatives are ugly > and perform needless arithmetic. > > What do you suggest, now that the coerce() built-in is not available?
I would suggest just doing the arithmetic :) That's guaranteed to work, and a little addition isn't that costly. (As long as you're not Numberphile and implementing four-bit binary arithmetic in racing dominoes. Then it's costly.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list