I posted a previous thread about overloading the unary `+` operator in strings with `ord`, and that expanded to more than just the unary `+` operator. So I'm saying now, there should be these implementations:
> +string - `int(string, 10)` (or just `int(string)`)
> -string - `int(string, 8)`
> ~string - `int(string, 16)`
Or:
> +string - `string.lstrip()`
> -string - `string.rstrip()`
> ~string - `string.strip()`
If anyone has better ideas, they can post it here.
Your other post mostly attracted sarcastic replies, so I'll be more direct: It's highly unlikely that this will go anywhere.
To get a new operator on a builtin type, you'll have to show that:
- It's a common operation;
- There's no convenient way to do it already; and
- The meaning of the operator is reasonably clear to a reader of the code.
I don't think any of these proposals come close to meeting those criteria.
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