Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Antoine, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that any type > that defines __index__ is an integer, and should therefore also define > __int__, in which case Python can just use __int__ and not worry about > __index__?
... is an integer-like, yes. > While I am beginning to agree that an integer type needs to implement > both __int__ and __index__, it still remains true that Python needs to > call __index__ if what it needs is already a real, true int, and not > just something that can be truncated or otherwise converted into an > int -- such as float. Of course. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19995> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com