On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Trent Mick <tre...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Tarek] >>>> Sounds good, I'd be in favor of making RationalVersion using explicit >>>> version bits, >>>> and having some kind of function: >>>> >>>> str2version(somestring) -> RationalVersion instance > > [Trent] >>> Or we could have: >>> >>> RationalVersion(...version bits...) >>> RationalVersion.from_string(s) # this is a @classmethod > > [Tres] >> I would prefer keeping the string version of __init__, with the "I'm in >> control, dammit" version reserved for the non-default factory method. > > I'd tend to agree, but I don't feel strongly about it. > > Tarek, > Why would you prefer the default constructor argument be the version bits > form.
The example that came in mind to me was datetime, that uses the bits in the constructor, plus provides conversion function or class methods to handle the string form: datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[,tzinfo]]]]]) So like Sridhar, I'd rather have an detailed constructor. I'm 0- on Tres proposal though, because the string form will be the most used form. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
