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		iaw on May 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python bug: Can assign [] = (), but not () = [] I use R predominantly, so forgive the lack of adequate Python-ese. Is this behavior because numpy overloads the multiplication operation with a string as string repetition and then implicitly casts the float64 down to an integer of 3? I'm curious why this behavior manifests. When I get a chance I'll test 'xyz'*np.float(3.5)

lmm on May 27, 2015 [–]

It's "normal" in python for this to work with integers:

    >>> "x" * 3
    xxx

The only weird part (and it's not that weird IMO) is that numpy's "float" can be implicitly coerced to integer.

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