Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> The other way to solve my problem would be to provide an operator module 
> function (operator.as_float?) that does a duck-typed conversion of an 
> arbitrary Python object to a float.

This does feel like the *right* solution to me. See #40801 and the linked PR. 
If we can do something like this, I'd be happy to drop the expectation that 
__float__ return something of exact type float, and similarly for __index__.

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