[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

[Mark Dickinson]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 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.

Would it be totally outrageous for the float constructor to accept
hex strings directly?

Mark