On 2/9/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido seemed accepting to this idea about 9 months ago when I spoke to > him. I finally got around to writing up the PEP. I'd really like to > get this into Python 2.5 if possible.
-1 I've detailed my reasons here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059851.html In short, there are purely math usages that want to convert to int while raising exceptions from inexact results. The name __index__ seems inappropriate for this, and I feel it would be cleaner to fix float.__int__ to raise exceptions from inexact results (after a suitable warning period and with a trunc() function added to math.) -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
