integer and string compare, is that correct?

[Hellmut Weber]

Hi,
being a causal python user (who likes the language quite a lot)
it took me a while to realize the following:


leo at sylvester py_count $ python
Python 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 26 2009, 12:34:23)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
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 >>> max = '5'
 >>> n = 5
 >>> n >= max
False
 >>> n + max
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'
 >>>


Section 5.9 Comparison describes this.

Can someone give me examples of use cases

TIA

Hellmut

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