On 8/8/07, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Stinner just made a good point at #python. The py3k has no magic > method and type slot for bytes. Python has magic methods like __int__ > for int(ob) and __str__ for str(ob). Are you considering to add a > __bytes__ method and tp_bytes?
Never occurred to me. The intention is that bytes() has a fixed signature. It's far less important than str(). __int__() is different, numeric types must be convertible. > I can think of a bunch of use cases for a magic method. Such as? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
