I wonder if, in order to change the behavior of various built-in functions, it wouldn't be easier to be able to write
from future_builtins import oct, hex # and who knows what else Agreed with your approach for bin(). On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to work on backporting PEP 3127, specifically the hex, oct(), > and bin() builtins. I have bin() completed, and I'll check it in > shortly. oct() will require a future import. Does anyone have any > pointers for implementing this? I understand (and have completed) > adding the future import, but what I don't understand is how to modify > the behavior of oct() for only the module where the future import is > execute. Any rough ideas or pointers to existing code that does > something similar would be helpful. I also need a name for the future > import statement. > > Also, I notice in py3k that __hex__ and __oct__ have vanished, and > instead hex() and oct() just uses the __index__ machinery to produce a > number, then converts that to a string. So I'm thinking that maybe we > could use the same future import statement that controls oct()'s > behavior to also switch hex() and oct() to the py3k behavior. Or, maybe > we should use a different future import? Or, I guess, not do this at > all. But I think it's a good idea. > > I guess another issue is changing hex()'s behavior of adding a trailing > L for longs. I don't really see the value in this, and maybe it should > also change with a future import statement. > > For bin(), I just used the py3k behavior, and didn't implement a __bin__ > method. I'm also not adding a trailing L for longs. I think that makes > the most sense. > > Eric. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
