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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jan 26 08:10:47 CET 2008


""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message news:47992363.3010402 at v.loewis.de... |> If the ambiguity is that 'int' behaviour is unspecified for floats - is | > it naive to suggest we specify the behaviour? || The concern is that whatever gets specified is arbitrary. There are many | ways how an int can be constructed from a float, so why is any such way | better than the others, and deserves to be the meaning of int()?

Decades of usage, in English, with the meaning it already has in Python.



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