[Python-Dev] A Horrible Inconsistency (original) (raw)

Facundo Batista facundobatista at gmail.com
Fri May 26 17:44:45 CEST 2006


2006/5/26, Sean Reifschneider <jafo-python-dev at tummy.com>:

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote: >- Treat the negative as a reverser, so we get back (3, 2, 1).

Then we could get: >>> print -123 321

An integer is NOT a sequence.

OTOH, that should be consistent to

-1 * "123" "321"

And remember I voted for returning an error, ;)

-- . Facundo

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