Terry Reedy wrote: > The purpose of type constructors is to construct instances from reasonable > inputs. I think all number constructors should accept bytes
What should bytes as input to a number constructor mean, though? People seem to be assuming it should be interpreted as ASCII-encoded characters. But an equally plausible interpretation might be that it's some binary representation of a number. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
