Type Casting...

Chris Barker chrishbarker at home.net
Tue Sep 18 15:44:52 EDT 2001


Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > Typecasting as such doesn't really exist in Python, however there
> are
> > various functions that will change one type to another (int(),
> > float(),long(), tuple(), etc.).
> 
> I think that you mangled your own point in there somewhere :-) I think
> the key is that these functions create new objects of a different
> type, not that they change one type to another.

yes, much better said.

-Chris

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