Noob question: Is all this typecasting normal?

[alex goretoy]

My gmail did that. FYI, it wasn't intentional.

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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:19:58 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>
> > But indeed, you obviously cannot add strings with numerics nor
> > concatenate numerics with strings. This would make no sense.
>
> The OP comes from a Perl background, which AFAIK allows you to concat
> numbers to strings and add strings to numbers. That's probably the (mis)
> feature he was hoping Python had.
>
>
>
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