[Python-Dev] PEP for adding an sq_index slot so that any object, a or b, can be used in X[a:b] notation
Travis E. Oliphant
oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Fri Feb 10 02:35:43 CET 2006
Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:32:47PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>>Looks good to me. Only change I might make is mention why __int__
>>doesn't work sooner (such as in the rationale). Otherwise +1 from me.
>
>
> I have a slight reservation about the name. On the one hand it's clear the
> canonical use will be for indexing sequences, and __index__ doesn't look
> enough like __int__ to get people confused on the difference. On the other
> hand, there are other places (in C) that want an actual int, and they could
> use __index__ too. Even more so if a PyArg_Parse* grew a format for 'the
> index-value for this object' ;)
>
There are other places in Python that check specifically for int objects
and long integer objects and fail with anything else. Perhaps all of
these should aslo call the __index__ slot.
But, then it *should* be renamed to i.e. "__true_int__". One such place
is in abstract.c sequence_repeat function.
The patch I submitted, perhaps aggressivele, changed that function to
call the nb_index slot as well instead of raising an error.
Perhaps the slot should be called nb_true_int?
-Travis
> On the *other* one hand, I can't think of a good name... but on the other
> other hand, it would be awkward to have to support an old name just because
> the real use wasn't envisioned yet.
>
> One-time-machine-for-the-shortsighted-quadrumanus-please-ly y'r,s
More information about the Python-Dev
mailing list