[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm reading "How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with > Python" and there's a question regarding string operations. The > question is, "Can you think of a property that addition and > multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?" > > I thought it was the commutative property but "<string>"*3 is > equivalent to 3*"<string>". Any ideas?
>>> 3.3*1 3.2999999999999998 >>> 3.3*'1' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel- 3.3*'1' TypeError: can't multiply sequence to non-int > > Thanks, > > Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list