On 02/04/13 01:44, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com
<mailto:dicki...@gmail.com>> wrote:
As written, int_check would do the wrong thing for bools, too: I
definitely want int(True) to be 1, not True.
For (2) and (4), it's not so clear. Are there use-cases for an
__index__ return value that's not directly of type int? I can't
think of any offhand.
int() and operator.index() are both type coercion calls to produce true
Python integers - they will never return a subclass, and this is both
deliberate and consistent with all the other builtin types that accept
an instance of themselves as input to the constructor. Passing a
subclass instance to the base class constructor is the way you convert a
subclass to an ordinary instance of the base class:
Unfortunately, that is not true :(
>>> class Int(int):
... def __int__(self):
... return self
...
>>> type(int(Int()))
<class '__main__.Int'>
Hence my original question: what *should* the semantics be?
>>> for base in (str, bytes, bytearray, int, float, complex, dict,
tuple, list, set, frozenset):
... class subclass(base): pass
... print("'type(base(subclass()))' is", type(base(subclass())))
...
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'str'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'bytes'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'bytearray'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'int'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'float'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'complex'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'dict'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'tuple'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'list'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'set'>
'type(base(subclass()))' is <class 'frozenset'>
There's code in the slot wrappers so that if you return a non-int object
from either __int__ or __index__, then the interpreter will complain
about it, and if you return a subclass, it will be stripped back to just
the base class.
If the language and library reference aren't clear on this, it's a
documentation issue.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com <mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com> |
Brisbane, Australia
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