On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> So far, fiddling with the PEP, I'm on the fence - adding a method to a >> built-in object type is sort of a grey area (at least in my mind). It >> depends on if doing so significantly alters the language/syntax. > > We have recently added things like float.fromhex() which IMHO shouldn't be > blocked by the moratorium (*), although they technically add a method to a > built-in. > > (*) it is a minor new feature aimed at catching up with some established > standard for an exact, non-ambiguous string representation of floats
Okay, so it remains a gray area. -- --Guido van Rossum PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to ultra-short emails. _______________________________________________ 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
