On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I am a relative new comer to Python. I see that typing is strongly > enforced in the sense you can't concatenate or add a string and an > integer. However comparison between a string and an integer seems to > be permitted. Is there any rationale behind this ?
It allows things like sorting of heterogeneous lists. It's generally viewed as a wart, though, and it was fixed in Python 3: Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:29:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'x' < 5 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int() Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
