On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:40:43 +0000, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Here's a puzzle for those who think they know Python:
>
> Given that I masked out part of the input, which version(s) of Python
> might give the following output, and what might I have replaced by
> asterisks?
There's too many variables -- at least five Python implementations that I
know of (CPython, Jython, PyPy, IronPython, and the Lisp-based
implementation that I can never remember the name of), and given that
this is an implementation-dependent feature it could have changed at any
time, in any version number (say, between minor releases). And there's
literally an infinite number of ways to get b equal to an int with the
value 1.
So I think unless somebody happens to have stumbled across this
behaviour, it's not predictable.
But having said that, I'm going to take a stab in the dark:
The line "b = ****" should be "b = int('1')"
and the version is CPython 1.4.
Am I close?
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Steven
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