Sept. 8, 2021
3:33 p.m.
On 9/8/21 1:21 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
NOTE: my objection to “bchr”, whether as a builtin or not is not the functionality, it’s the name. Equating a byte with a character is a legacy of C ( and Python 2” — in Python 3, they are completely distinct concepts.
No, they aren't. If you are working in a domain that uses ascii encoding (such as many network protocols), then those bytes represent characters -- this is why, for example, %-interpolation was added back to bytes. -- ~Ethan~