[Python-Dev] PEP for adding an sq_index slot so that any object, a or b, can be used in X[a:b] notation (original) (raw)

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 10:47:40 CET 2006


On 2/9/06, Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> wrote:

Guido seemed accepting to this idea about 9 months ago when I spoke to him. I finally got around to writing up the PEP. I'd really like to get this into Python 2.5 if possible.

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I've detailed my reasons here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059851.html

In short, there are purely math usages that want to convert to int while raising exceptions from inexact results. The name index seems inappropriate for this, and I feel it would be cleaner to fix float.int to raise exceptions from inexact results (after a suitable warning period and with a trunc() function added to math.)

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus



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