Python and generic programming

[Oliver Fromme]

Christophe Cavalaria <chris.cavalaria at free.fr> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > The appropriate type checking is done at compile time.  That
 > > is, if your program calls sort with two lists of different
 > > type (e.g. a list of strings and a list of ints), then the
 > > compiler will detect that and report an error.
 > 
 > This must be a bad example because I expect to be able to sort a list of
 > integers and a list of strings with the same sort function.

Uhm, I'm sorry, please forget the second sentence in my
above paragraph.  I had my mind somewhere else.  :-)

You _can_ use the function to sort a list of strings as
well as a list of ints.  But you can't mix it in a way
that, at some point, a string is compared with an int.

Best regards
   Oliver

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