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

[Raymond Hettinger]

From: "Tim Peters" <tim.one@comcast.net>

> Hmm.  Have you ever met a coercion you didn't like <0.9 wink>?

After Neal's changes to PyArg_ParseTuple, will Tim still
be able to use a floating argument to the wink() function
which has only been documented to accept a boolean state?

Alternatively, will the wink() implementation accept a
FixedPoint object so that ten <0.1 winks> will reliably
sum exactly to a full wink?

On comp.lang.py, the currently leading proposal is to
tighten the semantics to boolean but to support
backward compatibility for partial winks through
an explictly named function:  blink().


Raymond Hettinger

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