Python 3 __bytes__ method

Daniel da Silva var.mail.daniel at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 21:19:01 EST 2014


One use case is:
Suppose you have existing function that accepts a *bytes* object. If you
subclass *bytes* and want it to be guaranteed to work with that function,
you can override* __bytes__()* to use the logistics of your subclass
implementation.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 01/11/2014 04:53 PM, Daniel da Silva wrote:
>
>>
>> Where did you read this? I can't find any documentation about __bytes__
>> on google.
>>
>
> http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/datamodel.html?
> highlight=__bytes__#object.__bytes__
>
>
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