Martin Panter added the comment: I don’t like special values. A length of minus one makes no sense, so should trigger an exception, not some unexpected behaviour. A different data type like None would be a bit better.
But I’m not sure this would be widely used. If you really need it you could calculate the number of bytes needed via value.bit_length(). ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27637> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
