[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex() (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Feb 18 13:01:34 CET 2006

This posting is entirely tangential. Be warned.

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

It's worse than that. The return type depends on the value of the argument. I think there is little precedence for that:

There's one extremely significant example where the value of something impacts on the type of something else: functions. The types of everything involved in str([1]) and len([1]) are the same but the results are different. This shows up in PyPy's type annotation; most of the time we just track types indeed, but when something is called we need to have a pretty good idea of the potential values, too.

Relavent to the point at hand? No. Apologies for wasting your time :)

Cheers, mwh

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