Message 80780 - Python tracker

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:30, Benjamin Peterson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> added the comment:
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> Actually, I would like to repurpose tp_compare as tp_bytes for the
> __bytes__ method.

Repurposing would be extremely bad as that would mean it is possible
for people to actually compile code with a busted __bytes__
implementation.