Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:

In ideal world we would use __int__ for (1), and __trunc__ for (2). But for 
some historical reasons __index__ was introduced for (1) and __int__ is only 
used in the int constructor, although it falls back to __trunc__.

I am wondering whether one of __int__ or __trunc__ should be deprecated.

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