On Jul 5, 10:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides, a string is an excellent epresentation for a zip code, > > since arithmetic upon them is unthinkable. > > Absolutely! Excel, unless you remedied that later with a column > operation, would turn some East Coast zipcodes into 3- and 4-digit > numbers (dropping the leading 0s), exactly because it's so obtuse as to > try to "treat as numbers" entries that are all-digits.
What's even worse is having it treat credit card numbers as numbers. Which wouldn't be so much of a problem if they were 15 digits. But they're 16 digits. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
