[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?) (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Sep 2 19:44:08 EDT 2016

On 09/01/2016 04:07 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

2016-09-02 0:04 GMT+02:00 Ethan Furman:

- fromord to replace the mistaken purpose of the default constructor To replace a bogus bytes(obj)? If someone writes bytes(obj) but expect to create a byte string from an integer, why not using bchr() to fix the code?

The problem with only having bchr is that it doesn't help with bytearray; the problem with not having bchr is who wants to write bytes.fromord?

So we need bchr, and we need bytearray.fromord; and since the major difference between bytes and bytearray is that one is mutable and one is not, bytes should also have fromord.

-- Ethan

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