int('2.1') does not work while int(float('2.1')) does

[Erik Max Francis]

Joe Mason wrote:

> Why can it make this guess for "int(2.1)", then?  It's got a rule for
> converting floats to ints - why not use it here?

Because int(aFloat) means round toward zero.  int(aString) means make an
int out of this string.

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