[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 467 feedback from the Steering Council

On 9/9/21 9:37 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

While I think int.to_bytes() is pretty obscure (I knew about it, forgot about it, and learned about it again!) I’m not so sure it’s any less obscure than a proposed bytes.fromint().

So why don’t we just relax int.to_bytes()’s signature to include natural default values:

 int.to_bytes(length=1, byteorder=sys.byteorder, *, signed=False)

Then I ought to be able to just do

 >>> (65).to_bytes()
 b’A’

That seems so much worse than

>>> bchr(65) b'A'

;-)

-- ~Ethan~