[Python-Dev] Patches: 1 for the price of 10. (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Dec 23 07🔞33 CET 2004

On Dec 23, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Timothy Fitz wrote:

1067760 -- float-->long conversion on fileobj.seek calls, rather than float-->int. Permits larger floats (2.0**62) to match large int (2**62) arguments. rhettinger marked as "won't fix" in the original bug report; this seems like a clean solution, tho. Recommend apply. Wouldn't this cause subtle errors when the float -> long conversion is no longer precise? Or is this a non issue because it could only happen when seeking on impossibly large files?

I think that Raymond marked as "won't fix" because automatic float -> integer conversion has been deprecated since Python 2.3.0 (if not earlier), for exactly the reason you state. It's dumb.

range(2.7) main:1: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float [0, 1]

Apparently file.seek doesn't have this DeprecationWarning though..
Strange, that.

f.seek(3.6) f.tell() 3L

-bob

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