Little problem with the "+" operator

[Steve Holden]

"Joshua Marshall" <jmarshal at mathworks.com> wrote in message
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> Comparing Python to Perl here doesn't seem very fair.  They're very
> different languages.  In general, I'm surprised by the urgency with
> which people often jump to compare them.

A very fair point, although of course the original enquiry was about an
exception that Perl (nor VBScript, for that matter), would have raised.
Methinks we Pythonistas should not protest too much.

regards
 Steve