On Monday, June 6, 2016, Serhiy Storchaka &lt;<a href="mailto:storchaka@gmail.com">storchaka@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 06.06.16 23:28, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
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I think the approach using a new method for the old behavior is<br>
workable. Maybe we should add another (temporary) new method for the new<br>
behavior.<br>
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The magic object approach is too magical.<br>
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We should do the same for bytearray and memoryview.<br>
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I often use bytearray and memoryview as arrays of ints.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Really short ints. :-). But you should really use the array module instead.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway we should do this for all three or for none.</div><div><br></div><div>--Guido</div><br><br>-- <br>--Guido (mobile)<br>