wouter bolsterlee added the comment: i consider uuids as low level data types, not as fancy containers, similar to how i view datetime objects. given the native support in e.g. postgresql and many other systems, it's common to deal with uuids.
of course you can convert to/from strings or numbers, but that is cumbersome in many cases. for comparison, one would typically not convert unicode text from/into utf-8 encoded byte strings either, even though the latter will save memory in many cases. from experience: converting can lead to nasty bugs, e.g. because you forgot about a conversion, and then a uuid string does not compare equal to a uuid.UUID instance, leaving you puzzled. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
