[Python-Dev] Re: [bug?] UserLong.py - pow(5, UserLong(3), 26) fails

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:14:14PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> as part of the evaluation, i have created UserLong.py,
> and am working my way through the list of all operations.

> one of these - pow(int(5), UserLong(3), 26) - is failing

further preliminary analysis shows that the error message
is being reported from Objects/abstract.c:ternary_op.c.

without doing any debugging, i presume that PyNumber_Coerce
and the macro NEW_STYLE_NUMBER are both failing to identify
"class UserLong" as supporting numerical operations.

now, there _may_ be some way to add an operator to
class UserLong which identifies it as a "number" - i don't
know what it is.  anyone know?


PyNumber_Coerce requires that the HOF table
(PyObject*)w->ob_type->tp_as_number be != NULL in
order for it to call tp_as_number->nb_coerce() and
_that_ apparently will give number coercion.

however, that means that _even_ if i define "__coerce__"
in class UserLong, it won't get called because tp_as_number
is an optimisation/speedup HOF table of functions, yes?

so, the check in PyNumber_Coerce needs to also have
"if (tp_as_number == NULL) lookup_function("__coerce__")
 and call it"

 am i right?

 l.


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