[Python-Dev] various unix platform build/test issues

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Guido]
> 
>>I have a tentative fix for this (use PyNumber_Check() in
>>default_3way_compare() and augment PyNumber_Check() to test whether
>>the type defines nb_int).
> 
> Sounds good to me. 

+1

> It's interesting then that complex numbers will pass the
> PyNumber_Check test because they set nb_int to a routine that
> unconditionally raises an exception.  Checking for nb_negative may be
> crisper?

Isn't that caveat in the complex implementation ? Converting a
complex with 0 img part would not cause any loss of information
(apart from the usual integer truncations ;-)

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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