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On 01/05/2014 02:32 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> I wonder why nobody complains about the absent of implicit conversion
> between int and str. In PHP you can write 2 + "3" and got 5, but in
> Python this is an error. So sad!


I'd want my implicit conversion of 2 + '3' to get '23'

That's why it's not there...

Emile