29.05.20 14:22, Serhiy Storchaka пише:
I prefer it to be an alternative float constructor. We can also add the corresponding constructor for complex, and add constructors which accept only str, bytes or bytes-like object (i.e. parse a text representation of the number). See also previous discussion about alternative constructors. [1]
I can explain. It is not just style preference. The problem is that we have more than one numeric type. We have operator.index, and we can add operator.as_float and operator.as_complex. But what about Decimal and Fraction? And third-party numeric types? It would be impractical to make the operator module depending on the decimal and fractions modules.
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