On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 08:09:33PM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I think Nick is on board with bytes.fromint() and no bchr(), and my sense of the sentiment here is that this would be an acceptable resolution for most folks. Ethan, can you reconsider?
I haven't been completely keeping up with the entire thread, so apologies if this has already been covered. I assume that the idea is that bytes.fromint should return a single byte, equivalent to chr() returning a single character. To me, it sounds like should be the opposite of int.from_bytes. >>> int.from_bytes(b'Hello world', 'little') 121404708502361365413651784 >>> bytes.from_int(121404708502361365413651784, 'little') # should return b'Hello world' If that's not the API being suggested, that's going to be confusing. How about bytes.bchr()? bytes.bchr(n) --> a single byte bytes.from_int(n, byteorder) --> one or more bytes Personally, I think I would use the one or more bytes version more then the single bchr version, so if we only had one, I vote for that. -- Steve