[Python-Dev] PEP 467: Minor API improvements for bytes & bytearray (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Mon Aug 18 00:33:01 CEST 2014

Le 17/08/2014 13:07, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :

FWIW, I've been teaching Python full time for three years. I cover the use of bytearray(n) in my classes and not a single person out of 3000+ engineers have had a problem with it.

This is less about bytearray() than bytes(), IMO. bytearray() is sufficiently specialized that only experienced people will encounter it.

And while preallocating a bytearray of a certain size makes sense, it's completely pointless for a bytes object.

Regards

Antoine.

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