A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076521.html below:

[Python-Dev] [python] trunc()

[Python-Dev] [python] trunc() [Python-Dev] [python] trunc()Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jan 26 08:10:47 CET 2008
""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:47992363.3010402 at v.loewis.de...
|> If the ambiguity is that 'int' behaviour is unspecified for floats - is
| > it naive to suggest we specify the behaviour?
|
| The concern is that whatever gets specified is arbitrary. There are many
| ways how an int can be constructed from a float, so why is any such way
| better than the others, and deserves to be the meaning of int()?

Decades of usage, in English, with the meaning it already has in Python. 



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4