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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by galonk on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:56AM (#48948874)
Pedantic as hell but `"100" * 2` in Python (= `"100100"` for those who don't know) isn't really typing, it's operator overloading. Any language with that could implement the same questionable design decision.
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Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:06PM (#48951094)
And as much as I love Python, being able to multiple a string by an integer doesn't make sense when adding an integer to a string is a TypeError.

Being able to repeat a string is fine, but it should be a str.repeat() function, not an operator overload like that.

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