"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > So you're saying that it's to be expected that the analogy, "int is > to long as int is to float" will hold. But why should it be expected > to hold? float and long are completely different animals, no?
No, they are all types of numbers. The general rule is that Python (and most other languages) will convert a simpler type to a more "powerful" type but never the other way around - you may need to keep the power... Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
