Does anyone have a practical example? I have never had a particular issue with type safety in Python, with the exception of gotchas around floating-point division where I accidentally divided by the integer returned by a function without casting it to float.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Javier Candeira <jav...@candeira.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:07 PM, John La Rooy <john.lar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > def (L): > > assert isinstance(L, list) > > But that way you don work well with "duck lists". Or, in my case, you > lose polymorphism (a pythonic SortedList will work with any orderable > type). Maybe I could "assert arerelativeorderable(newelement, > firstelement), but that's what I do by writing "try: newelement > > itemzero; except: BOOM" > > > PEP8 strongly discourages using l as a variable name > > It says nothing about email discussions! > > J > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > melbourne-pug@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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