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On 16 Jul 2012 17:57:45 GMT, Albert van der Horst
<albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> In article <b2971c4d-0769-4d03-a7b6-c527629a85c1@x39g2000yqx.googlegroups.com>,
> Ranting Rick  <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >We DON'T want Python to silently convert "cost" to a string. What we
> >DO want is to force the author to use the str function thereby making
> >the conversion explicit.
> 
> We do want Python to silently convert "cost" to a string in the
> proper context.
> 
> cost= 3.75
> print( cost )
>
	Ah, but to some of us, "print" itself implies "convert argument to
human readable string format"... ie, an explicit "cast".
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