On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:19, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > Yes, I know what YAGNI means. The example that immediately comes to > mind is ZODB and Durus. They use 8-byte binary strings to represent > object IDs. Memory efficiency is important. > > Another example would be using a SHA-1 hash as a key. I don't > recall if I have written such code but message digests are so common > I don't think you can call YAGNI.
Yeah, we generally need both. These are important use cases for immutable binary data. It doesn't need a corresponding constructor in __builtin__ (IMO), but it's a common type to need. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-3000-checkins mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000-checkins
