One use case is: Suppose you have existing function that accepts a *bytes* object. If you subclass *bytes* and want it to be guaranteed to work with that function, you can override* __bytes__()* to use the logistics of your subclass implementation.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 01/11/2014 04:53 PM, Daniel da Silva wrote: > >> >> Where did you read this? I can't find any documentation about __bytes__ >> on google. >> > > http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/datamodel.html? > highlight=__bytes__#object.__bytes__ > > > -- > ~Ethan~ > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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