wtf - I can't get over how absurd this is: a = "123456" a = int(a) Is it just me or do you have to let go of every - devRant

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jmclemo6

680

7y

Seems pretty standard to me. What do you not like about it?
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CoffeeAndHate

535

7y

Why not

a = 123456 ?
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theuser

4802

7y

A function that parses a string to int?
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jarcane124

28

7y

@TianJagodic
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owithg

2171

7y

I think it's that the string variable just became an int
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DeepSpace

1447

7y

The fact that this code snippet is stupid doesn't say anything about Python.
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awnumar

293

7y

I'm taking about the fact that a variable can just change type.

Fucking scares me.
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AlgoRythm

50921

7y

@awnumar That's called a dynamic language, they're very common now. The world is very scary.

Same thing happens in JavaScript, Lua, PHP, etc.
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awnumar

293

7y

@AlgoRythm why has god left us
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devios1

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7y

@awnumar Free your mind from the confines of the concrete. Embrace abstraction.

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