On 15/01/2014 22:22, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
If we are going the route of a new magic method then __ascii__ or
__bytes_format__ get my vote as long as they only return bytes (I see no
need to abbreviate to __bformat__ or __formatb__ when we have method
names as long as __text_signature__ now).
__bytes_format__ gets my vote as it's blatantly obvious what it does.
I'm against __ascii__ as I'd automatically associate that with ascii in
the same way that I associate str with __str__ and repr with __repr__.
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Mark Lawrence
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