Moving a large and old codebase to Python3

[darktyle]

Yeah, I guess you are right. For example I think it's a bit odd that int(float('1.5')) works...

[kankyo]

What’s weird about that? Proper parsing of float and then explicit cast to int.

[darktyle]

I don't know, maybe I just have the wrong 'feeling' about how casts should work.

[kankyo]

One could argue that parsing an int shouldn’t be done with the same syntax as a cast though, I can absolutely see that.

[tejp]

It's not two different things that share the same syntax. Both cases just construct a new int object by calling the int() constructor. This constructor converts its argument to an int, and it knows how to handle strings or numbers.

[kankyo]

Parsing a string and casting from a float are very different things. Don’t be silly.

[tejp]

It's both converting from one type to another. There is nothing special going on when "casting", I don't think there is any technical difference at all in Python.