Glenn Linderman <glenn <at> nevcal.com> writes:
On the other hand, if the default behavior is to do an implicit conversion, I don't know of any way that that could be turned into an exception for those coders that don't want or don't like the particular type of implicit conversion chosen.
You still haven't given a good reason why we should raise an exception rather than do a comparison, though. The fact that some particular coders don't like "the particular type of implicit conversion chosen" is a particularly weak argument. Python isn't a language construction framework; we try to choose useful defaults rather than simply give out a box of tools. If some people don't like the defaults (significant indentation, limitless precision integers, etc.), there are other choices out there. Antoine.