Message 408159 - Python tracker

Ok, Guido, thanks. Fair enough.

So regardless: what is the problem exactly if a C function expects an int but gets given a float? Why does such strictness matter, in that it required a whole other set of __index__ etc to be added?  I am having trouble seeing the actual problem, which was taken as a given in all the archaeology I have done on this ancient "issue" -- but is it a given?  There is no problem... only the one created by this change, really.