[Python-Dev] Semantics of int(), index() (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Apr 2 11:01:20 CEST 2013


Le Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:53:41 +0100, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> a écrit :

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:

> > Hence my original question: what should the semantics be? > > I like Nick's answer to that: int should always return something of exact type int. Otherwise you're always left wondering whether you have to do "int(int(x))", or perhaps even "int(int(int(x)))", to be absolutely sure of getting an int.

Agreed.

Antoine.



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