At 01:53 AM 10/28/2007, you wrote: >"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...
Ah, got it. Finally. Thanks very much, Alan. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
