Re: [Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

2006-03-01 Thread Chermside, Michael
Ron Adam writes: > While playing around with the example bytes class I noticed code reads > much better when I use methods called tounicode and tostring. [...] > I'm not suggesting we start using to-type everywhere, just where it > might make things clearer over decode and encode. +1 I alwa

RE: [Python-Dev] Re: PEP 246: LiskovViolation as a name

2005-01-13 Thread Chermside, Michael
Phillip writes: > IMO, it's simpler to handle this use case by letting __conform__ return > None, since this allows people to follow the One Obvious Way to not conform > to a particular protocol. > > Then, there isn't a need to even worry about the exception name in the > first place, either...

RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Subscribing to PEP updates

2005-01-06 Thread Chermside, Michael
> Why not just subscribe to > python-checkins and filter out everything *but* nondist/peps? But there are lots of people who might be interested in following PEP updates but not other checkins. Pretty much anyone who considers themselves a "user" of Python not a developer. Perhaps they don't even