[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64424 - in python/trunk: Include/object.h Lib/test/test_sys.py Misc/NEWS Objects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/typeobject.c Python/bltinmodule.c (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 15:17:50 CEST 2008

Eric Smith wrote:

Note that in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-February/077062.html, Guido advocates not adding the bin machinery, which is what lead to the simple implementation of bin() just calling PyNumberToBase and relying on index.

I don't think bin should be added to 2.6. I don't see the point in adding a feature in 2.6 that's implemented so differently in 3.0. It's just asking for porting hassles. Instead, I think the approach used in 3.0 (r64451) should be used instead. That is, if this feature exist at all. I'm -0 on adding bin(), etc. to floats.

The 3.0 approach means that non-float floating point types still can't be displayed properly by bin()/oct()/hex(). The current 2.6 approach means every such class has to implement its own equivalent of PyNumber_ToBase. Both are lousy solutions to a relative non-problem (IMO) that can easily be implemented using a separate display function for those applications which happen to need it.

I'd prefer to see a proper PEP for this proposing a new slot that lets any class return an (integer_part, fraction_part) tuple of integers, and have PyNumber_ToBase take care of the actual string formatting.

Introducing such a gratuitous incompatibility between 2.6 and 3.0 at this late stage of the process certainly seems highly undesirable to me.

Cheers, Nick.

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