[Tutor] Newbie - mixing floats and integers (first post)

[Adam]

Alan Gauld wrote:

>>helpful than the Java forums). I really liked the idea of
>>checking for a '.' and then casting appropriately (does
>>casting mean anything in python)? 
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>Not really, the "cast" that Danny used is actually a conversion.
>casting means treat the data (without changing it) as if it were 
>some other type. Conversion means take the data and change it 
>into some other type. Python converts data it doesn't cast it.
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>>I'll be staying :-)
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>Your welcome aboard :-)
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>Alan G
>Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
>http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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Alan,

Thanks once again for your comments - it is becoming clearer. It is 
often good to know what goes on under the hood and how data is treated. 
I'm working my way through "Learning Python" (thanks to 
http://safari.oreilly.com) which is proving to be a very good starting 
document - I can recommend this to others if they're just starting out.

Thanks once again.

adam