On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > Minor changes: updated version numbers, add punctuation. > > The current text seems to take into account Guido's last comments. > > Thoughts before asking for acceptance? > > PEP: 467 > Title: Minor API improvements for binary sequences > Version: $Revision$ > Last-Modified: $Date$ > Author: Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> > Status: Draft > Type: Standards Track > Content-Type: text/x-rst > Created: 2014-03-30 > Python-Version: 3.5 > Post-History: 2014-03-30 2014-08-15 2014-08-16 > > > Abstract > ======== > > During the initial development of the Python 3 language specification, the > core ``bytes`` type for arbitrary binary data started as the mutable type > that is now referred to as ``bytearray``. Other aspects of operating in the > binary domain in Python have also evolved over the course of the Python 3 > series. > > This PEP proposes four small adjustments to the APIs of the ``bytes``, > ``bytearray`` and ``memoryview`` types to make it easier to operate entirely > in the binary domain: > > * Deprecate passing single integer values to ``bytes`` and ``bytearray`` > * Add ``bytes.zeros`` and ``bytearray.zeros`` alternative constructors > * Add ``bytes.byte`` and ``bytearray.byte`` alternative constructors > * Add ``bytes.iterbytes``, ``bytearray.iterbytes`` and > ``memoryview.iterbytes`` alternative iterators >
Why not bytes.viewbytes (or whatever name) so that one could also subscript it? And if it were a property, one could perhaps conveniently get the n'th byte: b'abcde'.viewbytes[n] # compared to b'abcde'[n:n+1] Also, would it not be more clear to call the int -> bytes method something like bytes.fromint or bytes.fromord and introduce the same thing on str? And perhaps allow multiple arguments to create a str/bytes of length > 1. I guess this may violate TOOWTDI, but anyway, just a thought. -- Koos _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
