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Ethan Furman

13 Jan 2014 13 Jan '14

6:38 p.m.

Has anyone actually used __bytes__ yet? What for? -- ~Ethan~

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Benjamin Peterson

13 Jan 13 Jan

8:24 p.m.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, at 05:38 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

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Has anyone actually used __bytes__ yet? What for?

In the stdlib itself: email.message wsgiref pathlib

R. David Murray

14 Jan 14 Jan

8:58 a.m.

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:38 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:

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Has anyone actually used __bytes__ yet? What for?

bytes(email.message.Message()) returns the message object serialized to "wire format". --David PS: I've always thought of "wire format" as *including* files...a file is a just a "wire" with an indefinite destination and transmission time....

Steven D'Aprano

5:56 p.m.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:58:49AM -0500, R. David Murray wrote:

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:38 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:

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Has anyone actually used __bytes__ yet? What for?

bytes(email.message.Message()) returns the message object serialized to "wire format".

--David

PS: I've always thought of "wire format" as *including* files...a file is a just a "wire" with an indefinite destination and transmission time....

Nice analogy! I must steal it :-) -- Steven

Stephen J. Turnbull

9:13 p.m.

R. David Murray writes:

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a file is a just a "wire" with an indefinite destination and transmission time

+1 QOTW Of course! "Store and ... wait for it ... forward" architecture 4-ever! Store and Forward, Inc. Since 1969.

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