On Apr 03, 2013, at 09:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Perhaps we should start emitting a DeprecationWarning for int subclasses >returned from __int__ and __index__ in 3.4?
I definitely agree with doing this for __int__(), since it's intimately tied to int(), which is clearly a type conversion operation. It's analogous to all the other built-in types-as-functions, so int() calls __int__() which must return a concrete integer. __index__() is a bit trickier because it is not tied directly to type conversion. In this case, int subclasses could be valid, and as Hrvoje later points out, returning int-subclasses from __index__() should still work for all valid use cases. (Bug 17576 would still be a bug in this scenario, since obj.__index__() still needs to be called by operator.index() even when it's an int subclass.) >(I like the idea of an explicit error over implicit conversion to the base >type, so deprecation of subtypes makes sense as a way forward. We should >check the other type coercion methods, too.) +1 -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com