[Python-Dev] Semantics of __int__(), __index__()

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 11:02:20 CEST 2013


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> My 2 cents here is that which one is called seems to be truly random.
> Try looking into what builtin functions call (for example list.pop
> calls __int__, who knew)
>

That sounds like a clear bug to me.  It should definitely be using
__index__.

Mark
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