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Asked: 2026-05-18T04:30:41+00:00

When does Python do automatic type conversion? — Update: I asked this after reading

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When does Python do automatic type conversion?

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Update:

I asked this after reading this post: In praise of Go or : “Why I moved from Python and C++ to Go”. The one of the points the poster makes is that:

  • It is statically typed, so it is more explicit and the code of a third
    party is more readable. Also it
    eliminates the risk of unwanted
    automatic type conversions (unlike
    Python).

I had no idea what he meant by “unwanted automatic type conversions”. Now, I think he’s talking about implicit numeric conversions. Of course, Python has these as 1.0 + 2 will convert 2 to 2.0 and return 3.0.

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    It doesn’t – it has duck typing instead.

    (I may have misunderstood what you meant by automatic type conversion, though, so it would help if you give more detail in your question.)

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