[Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Jan 15 23:00:37 CET 2014


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


-- 
Steven


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