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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 11:19:06 CEST 2013

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>wrote:

My 2 cents here is that which one is called seems to be truly random. Try looking into what builtin functions call (for example list.pop calls int, who knew) That sounds like a clear bug to me. It should definitely be using index.

Ah, and I see it is using __index__ in Python 3; just not in Python 2.7. It may be one of those Python 2 bugs that's not worth fixing because the fix would do more harm (in the form of breakage of existing code) than good.

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