Issue #1530559: When packing a non-integer with any integer conversion

code using struct.pack, attempt to convert to an integer first using
the argument's __int__ method (if present).  Also raise a
DeprecationWarning for any such usage of __int__.

This fixes a regression from 2.6, where some (but not all) integer
conversion codes already used __int__.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/struct.rst b/Doc/library/struct.rst
index a115c1d..3664e35 100644
--- a/Doc/library/struct.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/struct.rst
@@ -123,6 +123,18 @@ Notes:
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.2
 
+(3)
+   When attempting to pack a non-integer using any of the integer conversion
+   codes, the non-integer's :meth:`__int__` method (if present) will be called
+   to convert to an integer before packing.  However, this behaviour is
+   deprecated, and will raise :exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      Prior to version 2.7, not all integer conversion codes would use the
+      :meth:`__int__` method to convert, and :exc:`DeprecationWarning` was
+      raised only for float arguments.
+
+
 A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count.  For example,
 the format string ``'4h'`` means exactly the same as ``'hhhh'``.