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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Nov 13 18:16:11 CET 2006

skip at pobox.com wrote:

>> Right. There seem to be people who believe that 1e6 is an int. ... Steve> Next thing you know some damned fool is going to suggest that 1e6 Steve> gets parsed into a long integer.

Maybe in Py3k a decimal point should be required in floats using exponential notation - 1.e6 or 1.0e6 - with suitable deprecation warnings in 2.6+ about 1e6. My remarks weren't entirely tongue in cheek. Once you have long integers seamlessly integrated there is a case to be made that if the mantissa is integral then the literal should have an integral value.

Then, of course, we'll get people complaining about the length of time it takes to compute expressions containing huge integers.

regards Steve

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