[Python-Dev] Please comment on PEP 357 -- adding nb_index slot to PyNumberMethods (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 11:37:57 CET 2006

Georg Brandl wrote:

Bernhard Herzog wrote:

"Travis E. Oliphant" <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> writes:

2) The index special method will have the signature

def index(self): return obj Where obj must be either an int or a long or another object that has the index special method (but not self). So int objects will not have an index method (assuming that ints won't return a different but equal int object). However: 4) A new operator.index(obj) function will be added that calls equivalent of obj.index() and raises an error if obj does not implement the special method. So operator.index(1) will raise an exception. I would expect operator.index to be implemented using PyNumberindex. I'd expect that index won't be called on an int in the first place.

The PEP has been updated to cover adding the index slot to int/long so that "one check finds all". The slot will just get bypassed for ints and longs by a lot of the C code in the interpreter.

Cheers, Nick.

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