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On 4 September 2016 at 00:11, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, at 18:06, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
\> I guess one reason I don't like bchr (nor chrb, really) is that they
\> look just like a random sequence of letters in builtins, but not
\> recognizable the way asdf would be.
\>
\> I guess I have one last pair of suggestions for the name of this
\> function: bytes.chr or bytes.char.

What about byte? Like, not bytes.byte, just builtins.byte.

I like this option, it would be very "symmetric" to have, compare:

>>>chr(42)
'\*'

>>>str()
''

with this:

>>>byte(42)

b'\*'

>>>bytes()

b''

It is easy to explain and remember this.

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Ivan