On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:51 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-07-22, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> writes: >> >>> The biggest use I have for decimal numbers that begin with 0 is in >>> credit card numbers, account numbers and the like where the first >>> check you do is 'does this thing have the correct number of digits'. >> >> The following are examples of types from the real world that people >> think of, and casually discuss, as “numbers”. >> >> * Postal code >> * Credit card number >> * Telephone number >> * Car registration plate number >> * Personal Identification Number (PIN) > > Those are all strings. Not numbers.
I'm pretty sure that was Ben's point :-) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
