[Freeipa-devel] Integer parameters

[Pavel Zuna]

John Dennis wrote:
> I wanted to assure myself if a command was expecting an integer value, 
> it could be input in whatever radix the user desires and be correctly 
> converted. If I understand correctly this code is in parameters.py and 
> is implemented by the _convert_scalar member function. The Int and Float 
> classes derive from the Number class and inherit Number._convert_scalar 
> which attempts to call the type (e.g. constructor). However the int 
> class only supports base 10 radix strings in it's constructor, it will 
> not do radix conversion. Shouldn't the Int parameter class have it's own 
> _convert_scalar which invokes int(value, 0)? (Note: the second argument 
> to the int constructor is the radix base, with 0 being a special value 
> indicating the radix is to be derived from the prefix)
> 
Int only accepts base 10. As you say, we could extend _convert_scalar and have 
it accept different bases. The question is, do we need/want it to? If we do, 
then it shouldn't be too hard to implement (and I volunteer to do it).

Pavel