[Python-Dev] int() and math.trunc don't accept objects that only define index (original) (raw)

Rémi Lapeyre remi.lapeyre at henki.fr
Fri Mar 15 06:59:18 EDT 2019


Le 15 mars 2019 à 03:49:19, Steven D'Aprano (steve at pearwood.info(mailto:steve at pearwood.info)) a écrit:

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 03:21:31AM -0700, Rémi Lapeyre wrote:

> When index is defined it means that there is a lossless conversion > to int possible. In this case, this means a lossless conversion to > float and complex is also possible That's not correct: py> n = 2**64 + 1 py> n == int(float(n)) False

Thanks, I should have thought of that. Do you think index should only define int then?

Python floats (C doubles) can lose digits when converting from ints over 2**53 or so.

> (with the exception of overflows > but anyone doing float(var) should expect them). I don't. I expect float(var) to overflow to infinity, if it is going to overflow, and always forget that it can raise. py> float("9e9999") inf py> float(str(9*10**9999)) inf But: py> float(9*10**9999) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in OverflowError: int too large to convert to float This never fails to surprise me.

-- Steven


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