integer subclass range behavior

[josepharmbruster at gmail.com]

On Dec 19, 7:42 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:11:49 -0300, josepharmbrus... at gmail.com
> <josepharmbrus... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>
>
> > I was wondering what would happen, so I tried this out for the heck of
> > it with:
> > Python 3.0a2 (py3k:59572M, Dec 19 2007, 15:54:07) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> > (Intel)] on win32
>
> > class a(int):
> >   def __new__(cls,number):
> >     return int.__new__(cls,number)
>
> > for x in range(0,a(5)):
> >   print(x)
>
> > Which resulted in a:
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "a.py", line 5, in <module>
> >     for x in range(0,a(5)):
> > SystemError: .\Objects\longobject.c:400: bad argument to internal
> > function
>
> > Interesting!
>
> Yes. But much more interesting would be to report this on the bug tracker  http://bugs.python.orgelse it will fade away...
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina


Gabriel,

I usually do that... But from what i've learned, most things i've
thought are bugs, turn out to be that way for a good reason.  I was
playing it safe on this one :-)

Joseph Armbruster