On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:56 AM Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:27 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: >> >> I don't think being a function versus a classmethod is important here. Just >> that the underlying name is *callable*. > > > But wait a minute, zip isn't just a "callable", it's a class, and adding more > methods to it seems perfectly natural, just like lots of other built-in > classes. > > >>> zip > <class 'zip'> > >>> int > <class 'int'> > >>> int.to_bytes(97, 4, 'little') > b'a\x00\x00\x00'
That one is more normally written as (97).to_bytes(4, 'little') but a better example would be the converse int.from_bytes(b'a\0\0\0', 'little') == 97, as that's a class method. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZRGRA6GZMPGSBXVTJ5WQU5WZ7T2U5CVQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
