[Python-ideas] Dunder method to make object str-like

Thu Apr 7 15:00:53 EDT 2016

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> __index__ was originally created to support indexing, but has morphed over
> time to mean "something that can be losslessly converted to an integer".
>

Ahh! very good precedent, then -- where else is this used?

-CHB

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