Re: learnpython.org - an online interactive Python tutorial

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: learnpython.org - an online interactive Python tutorial
Date	2011-04-22 23:28 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:08:53 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> I'm not so sure that all strings should autopromote to integer (or
> "numeric" generally). However, adding a string and a number _should_
> (IMHO) promote the number to string.
> 
> print "Hello, "+name+", you have "+credit+" dollars of credit with us."
> 
> Okay, that one is probably better done with the % operator, but it
> definitely makes logical sense to concatenate numbers and strings as
> strings, not to add them as numbers.
>
	But what if /I/ want
		"A" + 1
to return
		"B"

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