[Python-Dev] Bug #537450 Improper object initialization for type.__new__

[Guido van Rossum]

> On a somewhat tangental note, MoinMoin breaks with Python 2.3 CVS --
> it expects integers from some of the os/filesystem time routines
> were changed to return floats.  The fix is trivial, of course, but
> it is interesting to note where real code breaks.

I wonder if perhaps we should be more conservative here and stick to
ints.  This was discussed here and we didn't know of any software that
would break.  Now we do...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)