Hatem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, there are precedents: > >>>> type(2**3) > <type 'int'> >>>> type(2**-3) > <type 'float'> > > My initial reaction to this was negative, but I'm struggling to think of > situations where it would be bad. I'm also struggling to think of > situations where it would be useful. Maybe Monday morning is just a > bad time for thinking. :-) > > Might be worth a discussion on python-ideas, at least?
I don't know about the internal representations in python, but I believe ints can be larger than ints. Nevertheless your example there which would have drove me nuts if I found it :-). I like the true division feature, but I find it too far deviant, if all of a sudden code started producing floats instead of ints, on a given upgrade of python someday soon. I think the result should be int if it is an int, but float if and only if it is really needed. I think your right, this conversation should probably move to python ideas, since this was by design and not a bug. (but I do not really like this part of the "feature"). _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4479> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
