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Author brett.cannon
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gpolo, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date 2009-01-29.19:39:20
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In-reply-to <1233243007.39.0.294266016776.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:30, Benjamin Peterson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> added the comment:
>
> Actually, I would like to repurpose tp_compare as tp_bytes for the
> __bytes__ method.

Repurposing would be extremely bad as that would mean it is possible
for people to actually compile code with a busted __bytes__
implementation.
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2009-01-29 19:39:22brett.cannonsetrecipients: + brett.cannon, lemburg, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, gpolo
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