Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Here's a patch to restore the old usage of __int__ to convert non-integer arguments; it also produces a DeprecationWarning whenever __int__ is used in this way. For consistency and simplicity, __int__ will be tried for *any* non-integer argument when packing with an integer format; this goes beyond the conversions that 2.6 allows. (In 2.6, the behaviour is somewhat random: it works only for 'bBhHil' in native mode and 'bhil' in non-native mode.)
It doesn't seem worth deliberately trying __long__ as well, so I've left that out. So there's still some possibility for breakage relative to 2.6, when (1) packing using 'Q' or 'q', *and* (2) the object to be packed defines __long__ but not __int__, or defines both __long__ and __int__ in inconsistent ways. The likelihood of (2) seems small enough that this isn't worth worrying about in practice (and the workaround is easy, too). Andreas, are you in a position to test this patch? Supporting conversions to integer via __index__ is orthogonal to this; I'll take a look at Meador's patch shortly. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16482/issue1530559__int__.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1530559> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
