[Python-Dev] Semantics of __int__(), __index__()
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 15:11:18 CEST 2013
On 2013-04-03 13:47, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 01:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > I like Nick's answer to that: int *should* always return something of
>> > > exact type int. Otherwise you're always left wondering whether you
>> > > have to do "int(int(x))", or perhaps even "int(int(int(x)))", to be
>> > > absolutely sure of getting an int.
>> >
>> > Agreed.
>>
>> Perhaps we should start emitting a DeprecationWarning for int subclasses
>> returned from __int__ and __index__ in 3.4?
>
> Why would one want to be absolutely sure of getting an int?
>
> It seems like a good feature that an __int__ implementation can choose to return
> an int subclass with additional (and optional) information. After all, int
> subclass instances should be usable everywhere where ints are, including in C
> code. I can imagine numpy and similar projects would be making use of this
> ability already -- just think of uses for numpy's subclasses of "float".
We don't.
[~]
|1> type(float(np.float64(1.0)))
float
[~]
|2> type(int(np.int32(1)))
int
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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