[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-791067 ] Section 11.20: xmlrpclib Details

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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jürgen Hermann (jhermann)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Section 11.20: xmlrpclib Details

Initial Comment:
An important detail is missing from the LaTeX library
ref, namely how to get at the values of the special
types (bool, date, binary); I had to inspect code to
get at this (I think even the module docstrings don't
reveal this).

Naively (with str) you get the repr() values:
  <Boolean True at 8287f8c>,
  <DateTime 20030818T18:42:52 at 829ab94>,
  <xmlrpclib.Binary instance at 0x829aeb4>),

To get at the underlying real values, you need:
  int(boolval) (or bool(boolval) for 2.3)
  dateval.value
  binary.data

This should be documented on the relevant sections
(11.20.2/3/4).


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