On 11/12/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:09, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > 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). > > > > 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 > > I agree that a warning seems best. If someone (for whatever reason) is > flinging floats around where they actually meant to have ints, going straight > to an error from silently truncating and accepting it seems a little bit > harsh.
Right. There seem to be people who believe that 1e6 is an int. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
