On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For the other issue I stumbled upon: > > - no DWIM-ism (do what I mean) on 'value' addition > > a = '1' > a += '1.1111' > print a > > will print > 11.1111 > > and not 2.1111, as in 'dynamically typed', 'operator based' languages. > (maybe the lack of a simple string-concatenation operator is the > reason?) But you don't add two values. you add two strings. If you want numbers you must convert the strings. > How could one approach these things without needing to > get too explicitly about 'type conversions' > (Python is supposed to be 'dynamically typed'?). Yes, but how can Python know that you want to add to numbers and not concate two strings? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
