On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:29:32PM +0100, Armin Rigo wrote: > > Where obj must be either an int or a long or another object that has > > the > > __index__ special method (but not self).
> The "anything but not self" rule is not consistent with any other > special method's behavior. IMHO we should just do the same as > __nonzero__(): > * __nonzero__(x) must return exactly a bool or an int. Yes, very much so. And in case people worry that this makes wrapping objects harder: proxy objects (for instance) would do 'return operator.index(self._real)'. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
