And this is absolutely not true; it's for the most part the entire freshman year for instance at MIT is taking pass-fail.

这绝对是不正确的;,例如，麻省理工学院的大部分新生在第一年参加的课程,都是采用及格-不及格的打分制度。

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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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