Is Python type safe?

[Roy Smith]

In article <QuJ5c.3008$G3.27398 at localhost>,
 Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> > Neither C++ nor Python will let you add the integer 3 to the string 
> > "four", but use different mechanisms to prevent it.  Oddly enough, Java 
> > (in a perl-like, but admittedly convenient, stab at automagic 
> > polymorphism) will let you add them.  No clue what C# does.
> 
> It's been a while since I Java-ed, but doesn't it "append" them, as in 
> convert the integer to a string and then join the two strings, rather 
> than "add" them (which I take to mean "calculate the sum of")?
> 
> (That's probably what you meant, but I'm just checking.  I'd be 
> surprised to find that Java actually performed the string-to-value 
> conversion implicitly.)
> 
> -Peter

Yes, "four" + 3 ==> "four3"

I could imagine a language where "4" + 3 ==> 7 (actually, I don't have 
to imagine it, all I need do is look at perl).  But, a language where 
"four" + 3 ==> 7 would be pretty bizarre :-)