Agreed. This would be similar to:
py> 1 + 1.0
Traceback: can only add int to int. Etc.
But then again, the unimaginative defense would be that it wouldn't be
python if you could catentate a list and a tuple.
Of course, that behaviour would be quite defensible; auto-casting int to
float is _wrong_, especially with python implementing abitrary precision
integers. Integers are more precise than floats, so why would you
automatically cast them in that direction?
Seeing
0xffffffffffffffffff+1.0==float(0xffffffffffffffffff)
True
Is considerably more irritating than your hypothetical Traceback would be.
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