2012/1/30 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's also potentially lossy if you incremented and decremented until integer >> precision is lost. My vote is for an int type check. No casting. > > operator.index() is built for that purpose (it's what we use these > days to restrict slicing to integers). > > +1 for the type restriction from me.
We don't need a type check. Just pass integers (obviously the only right type) to it. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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