On 2021-09-09 00:29, Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev wrote:
On 08/09/2021 21:21, Christopher Barker wrote:
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NOTE: my objection to “bchr”, whether as a builtin or not is not the
functionality, it’s the name.
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Why not byte() ?
I happened to need to convert an integer to a byte recently and I settled on
bytes((i,))
I don't know if I missed a more elegant solution (suggestions welcome),
but if I could write
byte(i)
that would feel more Pythonic to me.
Well, I tend to see a byte as a value like an int.
If you slice a bytestring, you'd expect to get a bytestring, and you do.
If you subscript a bytestring, you expect to get a byte. You get an int,
and that suggests that a byte is an int. (In Python 2 you got a
bytestring, in Python 3 you get an int.)
The name could be misleading as byte(i) would return a bytestring, not a
byte/int.
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