On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:35:44 +0100, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently, if you write 3*'*', you will get '***', but if you write > 3.0*'*', you will get an error (can't multiply sequence by non-int). > I was wondering whether this should be allowed, i.e. multiplication of > a sequence with a float. There could be either an implicit typecast to > int (i.e. rounding) ... Explicit is better than implicit. At least until some future version of python in which math.sqrt( 4.0 ) returns an integer. ;-) Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> "I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
