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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Aug 18 00:52:36 CEST 2014

On Aug 18, 2014, at 08:48 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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.

I don't know. How often do you really instantiate the bytes object there in the for loop?

-Barry

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