> There has been some recent interest in the Numeric/numarray community > for using array objects as indices > for builtin sequences. I know this has come up before, but to make > myself clear, the basic idea is to make the > following work: > > class C: > def __int__(self): > return 5 > > object = C() > > l = "Another feature..." > > print l[object] > "h" > > Are there any plans (or interest) for developing Python in this direction? I'm concerned that this will also make floats acceptable as indices (since they have an __int__ method) and this would cause atrocities like print "hello"[3.5] to work. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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