[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)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 21:28:37 CET 2006


Guido:

I don't like trueint very much. Personally, I'm fine with calling it index

index is OK, but is there a reason integer would be rejected?

int roughly follows the low-level C implementation, and may do odd things on unusual input.

integer properly creates a conceptual integer, so it won't lose or corrupt information (unless the class writer does this intentionally).

-jJ



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