How to coerce a list of vars into a new type?

[Björn Lindström]

bearophilehugs at lycos.com:

> def f(a, b, c):
>     map(int, [a, b, c])
>     ...code...
>
> What it does is to: "verify that three parameters can all be converted
> into integers, but it doesn't modify the parameters themselves" as the
> OP asked.

I would probably put that map in an assert statement, to make the
intention clearer.

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Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se>
Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden