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

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Date	2014-01-05 16:39 -0800
Subject	Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
From	Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> 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 like Python strongly typed, thank  you very much.  Please don't break it.

Not raising an exception when implicitly converting types tends to
lead to hard-to-track-down bugs.

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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 16:39 -0800

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