On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:59 AM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
It's definitely useful behaviour, but aligns better with sequence
multiplication than a fill= constructor parameter. My expectation (or
if you prefer: my preferred shed colour) would be ValueError.
ChrisA
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