[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?) (original) (raw)
Ivan Levkivskyi levkivskyi at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 18:23:37 EDT 2016
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On 4 September 2016 at 00:11, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, at 18:06, Koos Zevenhoven wrote: > I guess one reason I don't like bchr (nor chrb, really) is that they > look just like a random sequence of letters in builtins, but not > recognizable the way asdf would be. > > I guess I have one last pair of suggestions for the name of this > function: bytes.chr or bytes.char.
What about byte? Like, not bytes.byte, just builtins.byte.
I like this option, it would be very "symmetric" to have, compare:
chr(42) '*' str() ''
with this:
byte(42) b'*' bytes() b''
It is easy to explain and remember this.
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