[docs] [issue17576] PyNumber_Index() is not int-subclass friendly (or operator.index() docos lie)
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Aug 4 10:56:17 CEST 2013
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
See the related python-dev discussion started by Mark Shannon here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-March/125022.html
and continuing well into April here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125042.html
The consensus that emerged from that thread seems to be that calls to operator.index and to int() should always return something of exact type int.
The attached patch:
- Raises TypeError for implicit calls to nb_int that fail to return something of exact type int. (Results of direct calls to __int__ are not checked.)
- Ensures that *all* conversions from a non-int to an int via nb_int make use of the nb_int slot, even for int subclasses. Prior to this patch, some of the PyLong_As... functions would bypass __int__ for int subclasses.
- Adds a new private _PyLong_FromNbInt function to Objects/longobject.c, so that we have a single place for performing these conversions and making type checks, and refactors existing uses of the nb_int slot to go via this function.
- Makes corresponding changes for nb_index, which should address the original bug report.
I guess this may be too dangerous a change for Python 3.4. In that case, I propose raising warnings instead of TypeErrors for Python 3.4 and turning those into TypeErrors in Python 3.5.
One other question: should direct calls to __int__ and __index__ also have their return values type-checked? That doesn't seem to happen at the moment for other magic methods (see below), so it would seem consistent to only do the type checking for interpreter-generated implicit calls to __int__ and __index__. Nick: any opinion?
>>> class A:
... def __len__(self): return "a string"
... def __bool__(self): return "another string"
...
>>> a = A()
>>> a.__len__()
'a string'
>>> a.__bool__()
'another string'
>>> len(a)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
>>> bool(a)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __bool__ should return bool, returned str
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assignee: docs at python -> mark.dickinson
components: +Interpreter Core -Documentation
keywords: +patch
nosy: +ncoghlan
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31147/issue17576.patch
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