On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:26:48 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Currently the following functions fall back on __int__ where available: > > > > PyLong_AsLong > > PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow > > PyLong_AsLongLong > > PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow > > PyLong_AsUnsignedLongMask > > PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask > > I think this should be deprecated (and there should be an open issue for > this). Calling __int__ is just a Python 2 legacy.
I think that's a bad idea. There are widely-used int-like classes out there and it will break actual code: >>> import numpy as np >>> x = np.int64(5) >>> isinstance(x, int) False >>> x.__int__() 5 Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/