Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
to_bytes and from_bytes aren't remotely related to native primitive types, struct is. If the associated lengths aren't 2, 4 or 8, there is no real correlation with system level primitives, and providing these defaults makes it easy to accidentally write non-portable code. Providing a default might make sense, but if you do, it should be a fixed default (so output is portable). Making it depend on the system byte order for no real reason aside from "so I can do struct-like things faster in a non-struct way" is not a valid reason to make a behavior both implicit and inconsistent. ---------- nosy: +josh.r _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34889> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
