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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 01:56:09 CEST 2013

On 5 Apr 2013 01:07, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there any argument that I can pass to Foo() to get back a Bar()? >> Would anyone expect there to be one? Sure, I could override new to >> do stupid things, but in terms of logical expectations, I'd expect >> that Foo(x) will return a Foo object, not a Bar object. Why should int >> be any different? What have I missed here? > > > A class can define a new method that returns a different object. E.g. > (python 3): > Right, I'm aware it's possible. But who would expect it of a class?

Python 3.3 does it for OSError to map errno values to the appropriate subclasses. That's mainly to aid migration to the new exception structure, though (see PEP 3151). For a clean slate API design you would use a separate factory function or class method to do the conversion.

Cheers, Nick.

ChrisA

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