[Python-Dev] index (was str with base) (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 15:49:46 CET 2006


Guido wrote:

more important to implement index() in Python 2.5. This behaves like int() for integral types, but is not defined for float or Decimal.

Why not for Decimal, or even float? I would not be surprised if 10.798 failed, but I would expect 1000D to work.

If indexing worked with more arbitrary extension integers, then I would expect it work with Decimal, and possibly float, when the number == a whole number, and to raise ValueError otherwise.

-jJ



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