newbie str to int

[Erik Max Francis]

James wrote:

> Why doing simple thing like this is so complicated ?
> 
> Perl
> $foo = '123abc' + 0;
> 
> Please explain in newsgroup.

Because Perl is very sloppy with types, whereas Python is not.  The
difference in practice is that Python is more restrictive and catches
problems earlier, whereas with Perl you have to explicitly test for
failure cases yourself.

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