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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 00:48:08 CEST 2014

On 18 Aug 2014 08:04, "Markus Unterwaditzer" <markus at unterwaditzer.net> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 05:41:10PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I think the biggest API "problem" is that default iteration returns integers > instead of bytes. That's a real pain. I agree, this behavior required some helper functions while porting Werkzeug to Python 3 AFAIK. > > I'm not sure .iterbytes() is the best name for spelling iteration over bytes > instead of integers though. Given that we can't change iter(), I > personally would perhaps prefer a simple .bytes property over which if you > iterated you would receive bytes, e.g. I'd rather be for a .bytes() method, to match the .values(), and .keys() methods on dictionaries.

Calling it bytes is too confusing:

for x in bytes(data):
   ...

for x in bytes(data).bytes()

When referring to bytes, which bytes do you mean, the builtin or the method?

iterbytes() isn't especially attractive as a method name, but it's far more explicit about its purpose.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Markus

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