Mark Dickinson added the comment: > The ambiguous signed conversion cases should be an error, the unambiguous > unsigned conversion case should be supported
+1. A signed representation *requires* 1 bit for the sign (regardless of whether the number being represented is negative or nonnegative), so it should be an error to encode into zero bytes. But there's nothing wrong with trying to encode 0 in zero bytes when using an unsigned representation. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27623> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
