[Python-Dev] Symmetry arguments for API expansion (original) (raw)

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Tue Mar 20 20:32:11 EDT 2018

It seems .as_integer_ratio() has been resolved.

what about the original .is_integer() request? (Or did I miss that somehow?)

Anyway, it seems like index() should play a role here somehow... isn't that how you ask an object for the integer version of itself?

Could float et al. add an index method that would return a ValueError if the value was not an integer?

Of course, as pointed out earlier in this thread, an "exact" integer is probably not what you want with a float anyway....

-CHB

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

[Tim] >> An obvious way to extend it is for Fraction() to look for a special >> method too, say "asintegerratio()".

[Greg Ewing] > Why not asintegerratio? Because. at this point, that would be beating a dead horse ;-)

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