I thought there was a discussion of this earlier, and the idea was to
leave the prior implementation, because that's how it's implemented in
3.0. bin() is a new feature in 2.6, so there's no particular need to
make it work like hex() and oct().
Recall that in 3.0, __bin__, __oct__, and __hex__ don't exist. Instead,
you use __index__ for integer conversions. That's how bin() worked in
2.6 until this checkin.
But now that I look for it, I can't find the original discussion.
raymond.hettinger wrote:
Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Fri Jun 20 06:18:15 2008
New Revision: 64424
Log:
Make bin() implementation parallel oct() and hex() so that int/long subclasses
can override or so that other classes can support.
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