Message 207072 - Python tracker

Message207072

Author	r.david.murray
Recipients	Arfrever, benjamin.peterson, ethan.furman, r.david.murray
Date	2013-12-29.13:44:04
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Ah, I see. A link to that issue would have been helpful :). To summarize for anyone like me who didn't follow that issue: __index__ means the object can be losslessly converted to an int (is a true int), while __int__ may be an approximate conversion. Thus it makes sense for an object to have an __int__ but not __index__, but vice-versa does not make sense. Is someone updating the docs to reflect this, or should that be spun off as a separate issue as well?

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Ah, I see.  A link to that issue would have been helpful :).

To summarize for anyone like me who didn't follow that issue: __index__ means the object can be losslessly converted to an int (is a true int), while __int__ may be an approximate conversion.  Thus it makes sense for an object to have an __int__ but not __index__, but vice-versa does not make sense.

Is someone updating the docs to reflect this, or should that be spun off as a separate issue as well?

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