On 8/9/07, Joel Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Orendorff wrote: > > > Hooks would help with that, or even eliminate the need altogether. > > IMHO, having a __bytes__ method would go a long way.
I've heard this before, but there are many different, equally attractive ways to serialize objects to bytes (e.g. marshal, pickle, repr + encode, etc.). Bytes are not the same as strings, and you need to think differently about them. -- --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
