"Josiah Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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"Christos Georgiou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Christos]
> Well, what's the result of
>
> bytes([1,0,0])^ bytes([1,0])
>
> ? Is it bytes([0,0,0]) (à la little-endian) or is it bytes([1,1,0])
> (straight conversion to base-256)? Or perhaps throw a ValueError if the
> sizes differ?
[Josiah]
> It's a ValueError. If the sizes matched, it would be a per-element
> bitwise xor.
I agree ("in the face of ambiguity..."), although I understand that it
wasn't
obvious that I do from the way I asked the question, which I was expecting
Greg to answer :)
[Christos]
> These details should be considered in the PEP.
[Josiah]
> They aren't considered because they are *obvious* to most (if not all)
> sane people who use Python.
I beg to disagree. I don't know whether you are Dutch or not, but most of
the Python users aren't; one of the reason PEPs exist is to explain what
*should* "be obvious at first" when one is Dutch ;-) Apart from joking,
PEPs should be a record of beating/thinking the PEP subject to its death:
"The PEP author is responsible for building consensus within the
community and documenting dissenting opinions."
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