[capi-sig] String to number conversion

[Rasmus Andersson]

I see the point, but I'm generally sceptic to these kind of changes  
(ie extending the core) But why not make a patch and send it in for  
review?! Go for it!

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On 7 maj 2008, at 19.30, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 2008-05-07 19:14, Rasmus Andersson wrote:
>> On 7 maj 2008, at 19.03, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >
>>>>> Not really. The point of the PyNumber_* API is to work on numbers
>>>>> without actually caring or knowing the specific number types
>>>>> (Include/abstract.h).
>>>> Yes I know, but I can't really see a big need for this kind of  
>>>> functionality in practice, but please, enlighten me! (maybe with  
>>>> a scenario)
>>>
>>> Didn't I just give you a few ?
>> Either I'm unusually stupid today or I missed something -- where is  
>> the scenario (using this proposed functionality in real world)?  
>> (sorry)
>
> You asked for example of using the PyNumber_* API. All of these
> can use strings as input for the processing chain:
>
> * work with numbers regardless of type, do the final
>   conversion at the end
>
>   (you only care about the final type)
>
> * work with numbers, creating Python objects that can be
>   passed to other Python mechanisms such as marshal
>
>   (you only care about the fact that you're dealing with
>   a number, not the type)
>
> * parsing numeric data and preparing it for conversion to
>   some other format, e.g. using PyString_Format()
>
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