Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

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Date	2014-01-06 11:09 +1100
Subject	Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 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!  ;)

I quite like 2+"3" being "23", as it simplifies a lot of string
manipulation. But there's another option: 2+"3456" could be "56". That
one makes even more sense... doesn't it? I mean, C does it so it must
make sense...

ChrisA

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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-06 11:09 +1100

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