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Author gregory.p.smith
Recipients BTaskaya, EmilStenstrom, eric.smith, gregory.p.smith, jack1142, mrabarnett, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, veky, xtreak
Date 2021-03-20.21:43:31
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-10.  I agree with Serhiy.  Automatic type conversion is rarely a feature.  It leads to silent bugs when people pass the wrong things.  Be explicit.

We are intentionally not one of those everything is really a string languages like Perl or Javascript.

This core API behavior change is big enough to need a PEP and steering council approval.
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2021-03-20 21:43:31gregory.p.smithsetrecipients: + gregory.p.smith, rhettinger, terry.reedy, eric.smith, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, veky, pablogsal, xtreak, BTaskaya, EmilStenstrom, jack1142
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