[Python-Dev] Rounding float to int directly ... (original) (raw)

Christian Tanzer tanzer at swing.co.at
Thu Aug 3 08:34:31 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

What's the feeling about this? If, e.g. int() were changed in Py3k to round instead of truncate, would it cause anyone substantial pain?

Gratuitous breakage!

I shudder at the thought of checking hundreds of int-calls to see if they'd still be correct under such a change.

-- Christian Tanzer http://www.c-tanzer.at/

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