On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:21 -0800, James Stroud wrote: > But then again, the unimaginative defense would be that it wouldn't be > python if you could catentate a list and a tuple.
Since lists and tuples are completely different objects with completely different usages, what should concatenating a list and a tuple give? Should it depend on the order you pass them? 1.0 + 1 == 1 + 1.0 for very good reasons: we consider (for pragmatic reasons to do with loss of significant digits) that floats coerce ints into floats rather than the other way around. But what should lists and tuples do? >From the Zen of Python: "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list