On Jul 25, 2:04 am, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Frank Millman wrote: > > I know I am flogging a dead horse here, but IMHO, '165', '165.', > > '165.0', and '165.00' are all valid string representations of the > > integer 165.[1] > > > Therefore, for practical purposes, it would not be wrong for python's > > 'int' function to accept these without complaining. > > How far would you go with that? Would you also accept > '1.65e2' as a valid representation of the integer 165? >
To be honest, I don't even know what that means! I could read up on it, but I think this has gone far enough. Having flogged this horse to death, I will now let it rest in peace :-) Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list