Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > For example, `i.bits_at(0, 52)` to get at a double's mantissa requires no > thought at all to write or to read later; bit-level gibberish like
I agree that special function or method looks more clear. But I suppose that in many cases the performance does matter. And function call has larger overhead in current Python. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19915> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
