[Python-Dev] Symmetry arguments for API expansion (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 21 23:31:31 EDT 2018

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Thank you! As you may or may not have noticed in a different thread, we're going through a small existential crisis regarding the usefulness of isinteger() -- Serhiy believes it is not useful (and even an attractive nuisance) and should be deprecated. OTOH the existence of decmpdisinteger() seems to validate to me that it actually exposes useful functionality (and every Python feature can be abused, so that alone should not be a strong argument for deprecation).

if not deprecated, then do we add it to all the other numeric types? Which was the original suggestion, yes?

Yes. That's a pronouncement, so we can end this thread (and more importantly the other).

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