> On 8 Sep 2021, at 06:39, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 08:09:33PM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> I think Nick is on board with bytes.fromint() and no bchr(), and my >> sense of the sentiment here is that this would be an acceptable >> resolution for most folks. Ethan, can you reconsider? > > I haven't been completely keeping up with the entire thread, so > apologies if this has already been covered. I assume that the idea is > that bytes.fromint should return a single byte, equivalent to chr() > returning a single character. > > To me, it sounds like should be the opposite of int.from_bytes. > >>>> int.from_bytes(b'Hello world', 'little') > 121404708502361365413651784 >>>> bytes.from_int(121404708502361365413651784, 'little') > # should return b'Hello world'
:>>> int.from_bytes(b'\x00\x00\x00\x01', byteorder='big') 1 :>>> bytes.from_int(1) would return b'\x01'? Without a length it cannot return b'\x00\x00\x00\x01' Barry
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