Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
It's neither "bug" nor "feature" - it's an inherited quirk CPython maintains to avoid annoying users for no good reason. If you absolutely have to "do something", how about adding a mere footnote? The docs already imply the args have the same restrictions as for `range()`. A footnote could add that, to preserve historical compatibility, CPython also accepts arguments `x` for which `int(x) == x`, and uses `int(x)` in such cases - but portable code shouldn't rely on that. But nobody cares, so putting that in the main part of the docs would also annoy 99.99% of users for no good reason ;-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37319> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
