isn't that because you've turned it to string with quote marks?
Questionable numerical abilities by Python! Implicitly calling a length function without warning...pic.twitter.com/15KxTkSMFW
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Of course, that's what I was saying. Python deals with string-numbers poorly.
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strings are strings, regardless of their content. Do other languages deal with this differently?
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Apparently R is just as crazy, doing implicit length() calls... but javascript returns 10, so it implicitly converts to float
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and does so intelligently because given it non-convertible strings results in NaN.pic.twitter.com/xNGwiWAYhn
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I'm no coder, but I'd take consistency over intelligently adapting any day of the week
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js calls a conversion on input consistently, it's just that taking the max of NaNs gives NaN too.pic.twitter.com/A11a0jbvol
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kiddo that's why I always use NumPy arrays instead of Python lists
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I don't normally use Pyth for data analysis. Just for certain odd tasks like this one, where I just use default classes/methods.
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get with the modern scientific Python program
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That's not the length function. You are comparing strings. "9">"1": >>> max("10","9") '9'
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It looked like length, but apparently it's an implicit alphabet sorting.
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... which makes sense for all languages, except those specifically designed to be "practical" for your use case. Like Perl
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