Could <string>.to_str return the string?

[jswelling]

I'm dealing with a case where the incoming value could be either an integer or the string representation of an integer, e.g. "2". I need to modify it with string operations. This is easy enough if it is an integer, as I just apply the to_str method. However, if the value came in as a string originally, .to_str appears to return None. Is there any way I can set up .to_str to simply return the string? Shouldn't this be a default behavior?

[zeroSteiner]

Yeah most other languages behave in a similar manner by allowing coercion of a value to the type that it already is.

I might be able to get this done in the next few weeks but no promises.

[zeroSteiner]

I'm almost done now. I'd just like to implement propagation of type hints for compound types. Might be a another week.

[zeroSteiner]

This has been completed in the 4.2.0 release.