[Python-ideas] duck typing for io write methods

[Nick Coghlan]

On 13 June 2013 22:46, Wolfgang Maier
<wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> ok, that's a nice technical explanation, but is that reasonable behavior?
> Shouldn't Python check first to see if the object defines __bytes__() before
> defaulting to the other options?

It doesn't matter whether it's reasonable at this point, it can't be
changed without breaking backwards compatibility. Those things are
special cased, and it's not worth the hassle of changing it.

Cheers,
Nick.

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