On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: >> >> >> Hence my original question: what *should* the semantics be? >> > > I like Nick's answer to that: int *should* always return something of exact > type int. Otherwise you're always left wondering whether you have to do > "int(int(x))", or perhaps even "int(int(int(x)))", to be absolutely sure of > getting an int. > > The question is whether / how to fix the current behaviour, given that it > doesn't conform to those ideal semantics. > > Mark
My 2 cents here is that which one is called seems to be truly random. Try looking into what builtin functions call (for example list.pop calls __int__, who knew) _______________________________________________ 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
