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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:45:51 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 01/05/2014 03:31 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> 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'

Huh.  And here I thought 'twenty-three' was the right answer!  ;)

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~Ethan~