[Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Nov 13 02:25:32 CET 2006

On 11/12/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:09, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek; > > the original version tries to fix the current implementation > > by converting floats to long long, rather than plain C long > > (thus supporting files larger than 2GiB).

> > b) if not, should Python 2.6 just deprecate such usage, > > or outright reject it? > > Python 2.5 silently accepts (and truncates) a float that's within range, > so a warning sounds like the right thing to do for 2.6. note that read I agree that a warning seems best. If someone (for whatever reason) is flinging floats around where they actually meant to have ints, going straight to an error from silently truncating and accepting it seems a little bit harsh.

Right. There seem to be people who believe that 1e6 is an int.

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