Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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?
Is that a guess or just common sense? > 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." Do you guess with __add__ and __radd__? James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
