[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64424 - inpython/trunk:Include/object.h Lib/test/test_sys.pyMisc/NEWSObjects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.cObjects/typeobject.cPython/bltinmodule.c

[Guido van Rossum]

FWIW, I'm fine with making these methods on float -- a class method
float.fromhex(...) echoes e.g. dict.fromkeys(...) and
datetime.fromordinal(...). The to-hex conversion could be x.hex() --
we don't tend to use ".toxyz()" as a naming convention much in Python.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>> Is everyone agreed on a tohex/fromhex pair using the C99 notation as
>> recommended in 754R?
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> I've attached a Python version of a possible implementation to the issue. See:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/file10780/hex_float.py
>
> It might be useful for testing.
>
> Mark
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