On Friday 07 April 2006 14:43, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> You use the int() protocol to get an int from a string:
> int("42"), the same way as you use the Sequence() protocol to get a
> Sequence. (And if you're passing a long string, (i.e. int(100*"42")) you
> don't even get an int.
Not all single-arg calls that return something based on the input are
adaptations. While this particular case *might* be reasonable to describe as
adaptation (it's unclear to me), the fact that this call happens to be to the
target type is not necessarily significant.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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