On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:55:31AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > > Neil Schemenauer wrote: > > >Objects that implement __str__ can also implement __bytes__ if they > > >can guarantee that ASCII characters are always returned, > > > > I think __ascii_ would be a better name. I'd expect > > a method called __bytes__ on an int to return some > > version of its binary value. > > +1 > If we are going the route of a new magic method then __ascii__ or __bytes_format__ get my vote as long as they only return bytes (I see no need to abbreviate to __bformat__ or __formatb__ when we have method names as long as __text_signature__ now).
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