[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r87445 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/numbers.py

[Mark Dickinson]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     def __index__(self):
>> -        """index(self)"""
>> +        """someobject[self]"""
>>         return int(self)
>
> Changing the docstring to say "operator.index(self)" would be the
> clearest solution here.

Agreed.  Certainly "someobject[self]" isn't right.

(There's also a question about whether __index__ should really be
defaulting to int, but that's another issue...)

Mark