Larry Hastings added the comment: Nope. Argument Clinic was merged in 3.4, and in 3.3 pwd.getpwuid wouldn't accept strings. So this isn't a bug introduced in the Clinic conversion in 3.4, this is historical behavior, and we can't change it now.
If anything, I'd prefer that grp.getgrid *didn't* accept strings, but it's too late to change that too. "Helpfully" automatically calling int() on an argument is un-pythonic. (To answer your specific questions: they probably shouldn't have different behaviors, and I assume there's no particular reason for the difference. It's probably that they had different implementors, and one did a sloppier job than the other.) ---------- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26129> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
