New submission from Martijn Pieters: The Python 2 version of the bytearray() documentation appears to be copied directly from its Python 3 counterpart and states that when passing in a string an encoding is required:
* If it is a string, you must also give the encoding (and optionally, errors) parameters; bytearray() then converts the string to bytes using str.encode(). (from https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#bytearray). This obviously doesn't apply to Python 2 str() objects, but would only apply to unicode() objects. Can this be corrected? The current wording is confusing new users (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26230745/how-to-convert-python-str-to-bytearray). ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 228771 nosy: docs@python, mjpieters priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: bytearray documentation confuses string for unicode objects versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22575> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
