[Python-Dev] Numeric conversions

[David Abrahams]

From: "Aahz" <aahz@pythoncraft.com>


> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002, David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > The following small program is giving me some unexpected results with
> > Python 2.2.1:
> >
> > class Int(object):
> >     def __int__(self): return 10
> >
> > class Float(object):
> >     def __float__(self): return 10.0
> >
> > ----- results ------
> >
> > int(Int)                10
> > int(Float)              TypeError: object can't be converted to int
>
> Um.  I'm confuzzled.  Float doesn't have an __int__ method; why do you
> expect it to work?

I don't. as I wrote below that:

*** OK, int() seems to work as expected

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