On Jan 3, 6:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The OP comes from a Perl background, which AFAIK allows you to concat
> numbers to strings and add strings to numbers. That's probably the (mis)
> feature he was hoping Python had.
That's correct -- and that's been one of the more difficult parts of
my
I've done a good bit of Perl, but I'm new to Python.
I find myself doing a lot of typecasting (or whatever this thing I'm
about to show you is called), and I'm wondering if it's normal, or if
I'm missing an important idiom.
For example:
bet = raw_input("Enter your bet")
if int(bet) == 0:
# r
On Apr 1, 11:41 am, mdomans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python needs no evangelizing but I can tell you that it is a powerfull
> tool. I prefer to think that flash is rather visualization tool than
> programing language, and java needs a lot of typing and a lot of
> reading. On the other hand pyth
I'm a high school computer teacher, and I'm starting a series of
programming courses next year (disguised as "game development" classes
to capture more interest). The first year will be a gentle
introduction to programming, leading to two more years of advanced
topics.
I was initially thinking abo
