2008/9/3 Hagen Fürstenau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> That said, I would actually be okay with the status quo (which does >> raise an OverflowError) as long as we commit to fixing this properly >> in 2.7 / 3.1, by removing the range restriction (like we've done for >> other int operations a long time ago). > > What should be done when __len__() returns a float? In Python 2.6 the > behaviour depends on whether the class in new-style or not. (Old-style > classes raise a TypeError, new-style classes truncate.) Is there any > good reason for truncating?
That souds like a bug. IMO TypeError is the right response here. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
