[Python-Dev] trunc() (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 16:35:44 CET 2008

Christian Heimes wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

Suggestion:

- int() has to stay in builtins for obvious reasons. - put all of trunc, ceil, floor, round into math. - make int(float) an error Slightly different suggestion: - define int(float) as int(trunc(float)) In my humble opinion lots of people expect int(-2.5) == -2 and int(2.5) == 2. Or in other words: int(float) chops of the digits after the dot.

FWIW, this approach gets a +1 from me (although I'm -0 on taking round() out of builtins - that seems like a pointless incompatibility to me).

Yes, blessing 'trunc' as the default mechanism for converting a non-integral number to an integer is somewhat arbitrary, but it's a piece of arbitrariness with a very long history behind it.

For that matter, we could even formally define int() as falling back to trunc() if there is no direct conversion (i.e. int knows about the type natively, or the type provides an int method). That way non-integral types could just implement trunc without having to worry about adding "int = trunc" to the class definition.

We would still have operator.index to identify types which can be losslessly converted to a builtin integer.

Cheers, Nick.

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