Multiplying sequences with floats

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Dan Sommers wrote:
> Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>> I was wondering whether this should be allowed, i.e. multiplication of
>> a sequence with a float. There could be either an implicit typecast to
>> int (i.e. rounding) ...
> 
> Explicit is better than implicit.

I already knew using the word "implicit" would provoke that answer... 
Anyway this would be an argument only against the variant of typecasting 
a float with a fractional part. But what about the other variant which 
raises an error if there is a fractional part, but works if the float is 
actually an exact integer, like the result of 4.0//2.

BTW, the multiplication of a sequence with an int does an even more 
implicit thing: The number is considered to be zero if it is negative.

> At least until some future version of python in which math.sqrt( 4.0 )
> returns an integer.  ;-)

In that version, 4.0//2 would also return an integer... But that is not 
something I had in mind.

-- Christoph