On 07.06.16 23:28, Ethan Furman 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
"Byte" is an alias to "octet" (8-bit integer) in modern terminology.
Iterating bytes and bytearray already produce bytes. Wouldn't this be
confused? May be name these methods "iterbytestrings", since they adds
str-like behavior?
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