Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-13 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Right. There seem to be people who believe that 1e6 is an int. > ... > Steve> Next thing you know some damned fool is going to suggest that 1e6 > Steve> gets parsed into a long integer. > > Maybe in Py3k a decimal point should be required in floats usi

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-13 Thread skip
>> Right. There seem to be people who believe that 1e6 is an int. ... Steve> Next thing you know some damned fool is going to suggest that 1e6 Steve> gets parsed into a long integer. Maybe in Py3k a decimal point should be required in floats using exponential notation - 1.e6 or 1.

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Urman
On 11/13/06, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In which case an immediate transition to error status would seem to > offer a way of providing an effective education. Deprecation may well be > the best way to go for customer-friendliness, but anyone who believes > 1e6 is an int should be hit

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-13 Thread Steve Holden
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 11/12/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:09, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>> Martin v. Löwis wrote: Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek; the original version tries to fix the current implementatio

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 11/12/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:09, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek; > > > the original version tries to fix the current implementation > > > by converting flo

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:09, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek; > > the original version tries to fix the current implementation > > by converting floats to long long, rather than plain C long > > (thus supporting f

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Patch #1067760 deals with passing of float values to file.seek; > the original version tries to fix the current implementation > by converting floats to long long, rather than plain C long > (thus supporting files larger than 2GiB). > > I propose a different approach: pas