Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> added the comment:
The motivation for PEP 357 was certainly using an object as the index for a sequence, but that's not the only use case. In fact PEP 357 states "For example, the slot can be used any time Python requires an integer internally" So despite the name __index__, I think that this is now the de facto standard for "convert the object (which is some kind of integer) to a Python int without loss of precision". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35707> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
