Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek;
> the original version tries to fix the current implementation
> by converting floats to long long, rather than plain C long
> (thus supporting files larger than 2GiB).
>
> I propose a different approach: passing floats to seek should
> be an error. My version of the patch uses the index API, this
> will automatically give an error.
>
> Two questions:
> a) should floats be supported as parameters to file.seek
I don't really see why.
> b) if not, should Python 2.6 just deprecate such usage,
> or outright reject it?
Python 2.5 silently accepts (and truncates) a float that's within range,
so a warning sounds like the right thing to do for 2.6. note that read
already produces such a warning:
>>> f = open("hello.txt")
>>> f.seek(1.5)
>>> f.read(1.5)
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
'e'
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