[Python-Dev] [python] trunc()

[Terry Reedy]

""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:47992363.3010402 at v.loewis.de...
|> If the ambiguity is that 'int' behaviour is unspecified for floats - is
| > it naive to suggest we specify the behaviour?
|
| The concern is that whatever gets specified is arbitrary. There are many
| ways how an int can be constructed from a float, so why is any such way
| better than the others, and deserves to be the meaning of int()?

Decades of usage, in English, with the meaning it already has in Python.