[Python-Dev] fileobj.read(float): warning or error? (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Wed Jul 23 01:43:18 CEST 2008


Le Monday 21 July 2008 21:23:21, vous avez écrit :

> It should raises an error instead of a warning, it has no sense to read a > partial byte :-) But that should breaks some applications?

This doesn't come into effect until 3.0.

Would it possible to create an option "strict mode" which disallow dangerous cast? Especially in PyArg_Parse*() functions.

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I hate "transparent" cast, like C and PHP do everywhere. The worst "transparent" cast in Python (2.x) is between str (bytes) and unicode (characters) types.

Victor Stinner aka haypo



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