Yury Selivanov added the comment: > This is just a two-liner: > > with memoryview(bytelike) as m: > bs = bytes(m[start:end])
Which virtually no one follows :( > Adding new method to builtin type has high bar. I doubts that there are > enough use cases in which bytes.frombuffer() has an advantage. Any protocol parsing code has a lot of slicing. > The signature of bytes.frombuffer() looks questionable. Why length and offset > instead of start and stop indices as in slices? Why length is first and > offset is last? This contradicts the interface of Python 2 buffer(), > socket.sendfile(), os.sendfile(), etc. I propose to make both arguments keyword-only. > There is also a problem with returned type for subclasses (this is always a > problem for alternate constructors). Good point. How do we usually solve this in CPython? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29178> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com