[New-bugs-announce] [issue24234] Should we define complex.__complex__ and bytes.__bytes__?

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum:

The special methods __complex__ and __bytes__ are not present on the corresponding builtin types.  Compare this to __int__ and __float__, which do exist on int and float, respectively.  Should we add the eponymous methods to complex and bytes?

(This came up in the context of PEP 484: https://github.com/ambv/typehinting/issues/68#issuecomment-88130156 )

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messages: 243538
nosy: gvanrossum
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Should we define complex.__complex__ and bytes.__bytes__?
versions: Python 3.5

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