Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Yes, that's intentional. When use of __int__ was deprecated, a bug report popped up from someone who wanted to be able to have their own objects treated as integers for the purposes of struct.pack. (I don't recall which issue; Meador, do you remember?) So we added use of __index__ at that point.
I think __index__ is the right interface for something to expose if it wants to be usable as an integer, and this usage is consistent with the original __index__ PEP. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12974> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
