FWIW, I'm fine with making these methods on float -- a class method float.fromhex(...) echoes e.g. dict.fromkeys(...) and datetime.fromordinal(...). The to-hex conversion could be x.hex() -- we don't tend to use ".toxyz()" as a naming convention much in Python.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is everyone agreed on a tohex/fromhex pair using the C99 notation as >> recommended in 754R? > > Sounds good to me. > > I've attached a Python version of a possible implementation to the issue. See: > > http://bugs.python.org/file10780/hex_float.py > > It might be useful for testing. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com