f---ing typechecking

[tsuraan]

> Agreed. This would be similar to:
>
> py> 1 + 1.0
>
> Traceback: can only add int to int. Etc.
>
> But then again, the unimaginative defense would be that it wouldn't be
> python if you could catentate a list and a tuple.


Of course, that behaviour would be quite defensible; auto-casting int to
float is _wrong_, especially with python implementing abitrary precision
integers.  Integers are more precise than floats, so why would you
automatically cast them in that direction?

Seeing

>>> 0xffffffffffffffffff+1.0==float(0xffffffffffffffffff)
True

Is considerably more irritating than your hypothetical Traceback would be.
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