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

Martin Panter vadmium+py at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 07:26:06 EDT 2016


On 2 September 2016 at 17:54, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

* Deprecate passing single integer values to bytes and bytearray * Add bytes.fromsize and bytearray.fromsize alternative constructors * Add bytes.fromord and bytearray.fromord alternative constructors * Add bytes.getbyte and bytearray.getbyte byte retrieval methods * Add bytes.iterbytes and bytearray.iterbytes alternative iterators I wonder if fromsomething with an underscore is more consistent (according to a quick search perhaps yes).

That would not be too inconsistent with the sister constructor bytes.fromhex().



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