[Python-Dev] PEP 467: last round (?) (original) (raw)
Koos Zevenhoven k7hoven at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 18:36:08 EDT 2016
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
In one way, I like it, but on the other hand, indexing a bytes gives an integer, so maybe a 'byte' is just an integer in range(256). Also, having both byte and bytes would be a slight annoyance with autocomplete.
-- Koos
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