"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder why nobody complains about the absent of implicit conversion
> between int and str. In PHP you can write 2 + "3" and got 5, but in Python
> this is an error. So sad!

I like Python strongly typed, thank  you very much.  Please don't break it.

Not raising an exception when implicitly converting types tends to
lead to hard-to-track-down bugs.