On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just being slow today, but I don't see how you can write > "generic code" to convert text to int/float/complex/Fraction, but not > times. The only difference is that instead of calling the type directly, > you call the appropriate classmethod. > > What am I missing?
Nothing. The only annoyance is that the data processing code typically needs to know the type anyway, so the classmethod is one more variable to keep track of. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com