On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proposal > -------- > Remove non-essential abstract methods like __index__, three argument > __pow__, > __lshift__, __rlshift__, __rshift__, __rrshift__, __and__, __rand__, > __xor__, > __rxor__, __or__, __ror__, and __invert__, numerator, and denominator. > +1 from me. I'd support removing all these, minus the exceptions already pointed out (__index__, numerator, denominator). As a (so far incomplete) effort to speed up the Decimal type I recently implemented a decimal-based integer type; this type would seem a natural candidate to inherit from Integral, but the logical and shift operators above make less sense for this type. The other odd man out here is three-argument pow; this *is* a method that makes sense for integers without reference to the way they're stored. So maybe this should stay. (Though I've occasionally wondered why three-argument pow is part of the core language, rather than being in the standard library.) Mark
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