It expected arithmetic types.

这儿应该是运算类型。

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It caught the error, because it checked the types of the operands before it applied things and it says, I'm going to stop.

它捕捉到了错误，因为它在,进行运算之前检查了运算对象的类型,然后Python意识到，应该停止了。

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Because in doing that, Python would then have a value that it could pass on into some other part of a computation, and if it wasn't what I wanted, I might be a long ways downstream in the computation before I actually hit some result that makes no sense.

因为如果这样做的话，Python会将,输入的值传递到下面的,一些运算中去，如果这个值的类型不是我想要的，我可能会在得到,一个毫无意义的结果之前,经历一个很长时间的,计算过程。

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