[Freeipa-devel] Integer parameters

[John Dennis]

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)

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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