On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> If you are working with data that is representable as either an integer >> or a string, choose one and stick to it. Treating it as both/either will >> eventually lead to grief. >> >> Or, in other words: 1 != '1' > > Tell that to the PHP crowd :-)
I think this example highlights a major point about gotchas: the difference between an obvious language feature and a gotcha depends on where you come from. To a PHP programmer, 1 and "1" are in many ways indistinguishable. To a C programmer, they're utterly incompatible. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
