Python 3 __bytes__ method

[Ethan Furman]

Python 3 has a new method, __bytes__. The docs say: Called by bytes() to compute a byte-string representation of an
object. This should return a bytes object.

I must admit I'm not entirely clear how this should be used. Is anyone using this now? If so, how?

 

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 12.01.2014 01:24 schrieb Ethan Furman:

I must admit I'm not entirely clear how this should be used. Is anyone
using this now? If so, how?

I am not, as I currently am using Py2, but if I would, I would do it e.
g. for serialization of objects in order to send them over the line or
to save them into a file. IOW, the same purpose as we havd on __str__ in
Py2.


Thomas