[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk

[Robert Brewer]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I thought the whole point of 3.0 was a recognition that all that
> doubling-up was a bad thing and to be rid of it.  Why make the
> situation worse?  ISTM that we need two versions of oct() like
> we need a hole in the head.  Heck, there's potentially a case to be
> made that we don't need oct() at all.  IIRC, unix permissions like
> 0666 were the only use case that surfaced.

Postgres bytea coercion is a frequent use case for oct() in my world.
But I agree we don't need two versions.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org