On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:37 AM Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:01 AM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> >>> bytearray.fromsize(5, fill=b'\x0a')
>> bytearray(b'\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a\x0a')
>>
>
> What happens if you supply more than one byte for the fill argument?
> Silent truncation, raise ValueError('too long') or ???
>
It would seem reasonable to me for a multi-byte sequence to be filled as-is
in a repeating pattern, perhaps truncating the last repetition if len(fill)
is not an even multiple of the size. At least that's the intuitive behavior
for me.
That said, I don't know if such behavior would be useful in practice (i.e.
whether there's a use case for it).
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